Dear readers,
The right of museums to house, exhibit, and research human remains, in particular those from Indigenous peoples collected during colonial times, has been questioned und fundamentally challenged in many parts of the world for decades. This debate has also been led in the German museum community. In 2013, the German Museums Association (Deutscher Museumsbund, DMB) published the “Recommendations for the Care of Humans Remains in Museums and Collections”. At the end of that year, Larissa Förster and Sarah Fründt convened an interdisciplinary and international workshop to critically discuss these “Recommendations”. This discussion forum, also convened for H-Soz-Kult by Larissa Förster and Sarah Fründt, presents the results of the workshop with selected articles. The following texts have been published until now:
Human Remains in Museums and Collections. A Critical Engagement with the „Recommendations“ of the German Museums Association (2013)
by the editors of H-Soz-Kult
http://www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/diskussionen-3902
Human Remains in Museums and Collections. A Critical Engagement with the „Recommendations“ of the German Museums Association (2013). Editorial
by Larissa Förster / Sarah Fründt
http://www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/diskussionen-3909
A Good Starting Point? Critical Perspectives from Various Disciplines
by Larissa Förster / Sarah Fründt / Dirk Preuß / Katharina Schramm / Holger Stoecker / Andreas Winkelmann
http://www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/diskussionen-3955
A Helping Hand? Comments on the "Recommendations for the Care of Human Remains in Museums and Collections" by the Deutscher Museumsbund (German Museums Association)
by Michael Pickering
http://www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/diskussionen-4000
Practical Aspects of the Care of Human Remains in Ethnographic Collections. Using the "Recommendations for the Care of Human Remains in Museums and Collections" by the German Museums Association
by Diana Gabler / Katharina Keplinger
http://www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/diskussionen-3999
A View from Aotearoa New Zealand
by Te Herekiekie Herewini
http://www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/diskussionen-4018
German Museums, Human Remains and the Challenges of Colonial Legacies
by Ciraj Rassool
http://www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/diskussionen-4016
The "Recommendations for the Care of Human Remains" in Practice: Case Study of the Karl May Museum Radebeul
by Robin Leipold
http://www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/diskussionen-3956
Injustice, Human Rights, and Intellectual Savagery. A Review
by Edward Halealoha Ayau / Honor Keeler
http://www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/diskussionen-3987