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The Force of Family

Repatriation, Kinship, and Memory on Haida Gwaii

By: Cara Krmpotich

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The Force of Family

Repatriation, Kinship, and Memory on Haida Gwaii

By: Cara Krmpotich

Over the course of more than a decade, the Haida Nation triumphantly returned home all known Haida ancestral remains from North American museums. In the summer of 2010, they achieved what many thought was impossible: the repatriation of ancestral remains from the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. The Force of Family is an ethnography of those efforts to repatriate ancestral remains from museums around the world. Focusing on objects made to honour the ancestors, Cara Krmpotich explores how memory, objects, and kinship connect and form a cultural archive. Since the mid-1990s, Haidas have been making button blankets and bentwood boxes with clan crest designs, hosting feasts for hundreds of people, and composing and choreographing new songs and dances in the service of repatriation. The book comes to understand how shared experiences of sewing, weaving, dancing, cooking and feasting lead to the Haida notion of “respect,” the creation of kinship and collective memory, and the production of a cultural archive.

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This Is Our Life

Haida Material Heritage and Changing Museum Practice

By: Cara Krmpotich,Laura Peers,the Haida Repatriation Committee and staff of the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum

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This Is Our Life

Haida Material Heritage and Changing Museum Practice

By: Cara Krmpotich,Laura Peers,the Haida Repatriation Committee and staff of the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum

In September 2009, twenty-one members of the Haida Nation went to Oxford and London to work with several hundred heritage treasures at the Pitt Rivers Museum and the British Museum. The encounter set a new course for the relationships between the custodians of these cultural artifacts and the Indigenous people for whom the objects are a direct link to their past. Emotional and illuminating, tense and challenging, it was a transformative visit that none would soon forget. Featuring contributions from Haida and museum participants and a rich selection of illustrations, This Is Our Life details the remarkable story of the Haida Project. A fascinating look at the meaning behind objects, the value of repatriation, and the impact of historical trajectories like colonialism, this is also a tender story of the understanding that grew between the Haida visitors and museum staff. Beautifully written and illustrated, This Is Our Life offers a compelling view of the transformative potential of a conversation hundreds of years in the making.

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The Force of Family

Repatriation, Kinship, and Memory on Haida Gwaii

By: Cara Krmpotich

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Repatriation, Kinship, and Memory on Haida Gwaii

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Explains the intimate tie between Haida repatriation and kinship in its associated forms of memory, history, and respect."--Back cover

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This Is Our Life

Haida Material Heritage and Changing Museum Practice

By: Cara Krmpotich,Laura Peers,the Haida Repatriation Committee and staff of the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum

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Haida Material Heritage and Changing Museum Practice

By: Cara Krmpotich,Laura Peers,the Haida Repatriation Committee and staff of the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum

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The Force of Family

Repatriation, Kinship, and Memory on Haida Gwaii

By: Cara Krmpotich

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The Force of Family

Repatriation, Kinship, and Memory on Haida Gwaii

By: Cara Krmpotich

Over the course of more than a decade, the Haida Nation triumphantly returned home all known Haida ancestral remains from North American museums. The Force of Family is an ethnography of those efforts to repatriate ancestral remains from museums around the world.

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