Body Snatching &amp; Grave Robbing: Bodies for Science

Highet, Megan J.

doi:10.1080/02757200500390981

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“…Deathscapes have been examined most extensively in colonial spaces through attention to the displacement of Indigenous bodies and disruption of Indigenous gravesites by colonizers (for example : Roy 2006;Highet 2005;Thomas 2000). However, framing deathscapes in conjunction with settler colonialism, formulated as a unique form of colonization (Veracini 2015, 13-31), is comparatively lacking in consideration.…”

Section: Deathscapes and Theories Of Settler Colonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deathscapes of Settler Colonialism: The Necro-Settlement of Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada

Barker

2018

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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This paper considers the influence of burials and memorials to colonial soldiers from an earlier era on contemporary social and cultural landscapes in Canada. Through the example of a landscape centred on Smith's Knoll, a burial ground for war dead from the British-American War of 1812, it explores the process of 'necrosettlement': the strengthening of settler colonial claims to land based on the development of complex, meaning-laden landscapes of dead and memory. This paper consists of three parts: The first situates geographical studies of deathscapes alongside theories about settler colonialism through intersecting discourses of land use. The second comprises a settler colonial micro historical geography of Smith's Knoll and the local deathscape that surrounds it. The third section will draw upon this case study to reveal new perspectives on the role of burial and memorial in settler colonial placemaking, and the erasure of Indigenous histories and peoples.

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Section: Deathscapes and Theories Of Settler Colonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deathscapes of Settler Colonialism: The Necro-Settlement of Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada

Barker

2018

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…African Americans, the poor, and criminals. 12 Similarly, grave robbing of Native Americans prioritized scientific inquiry over the wishes of descendant populations who were typically powerless to prevent such activities and ref lected major differences in the respect shown toward the bodies of indigenous peoples versus those of Whites.…”

Section: Grave Robbing and Its Modern Vestiges In Bioarchaeologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bioarchaeology and the Ethics of Research Using Human Skeletal Remains

DeWitte

2015

History Compass

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In a recent article, Pobst refers to bioarchaeologists as “grave‐robbing scientists,” a phrase that negatively and inaccurately describes such researchers. This paper provides an overview of the history of the collection of human skeletal remains by anthropologists and others, which has resulted in misconceptions about current practices in the field, and of the important changes that have been made in recent decades to ensure that bioarchaeological research is done ethically. Recent Black Death research is emphasized as an example of bioarchaeology that conforms to the ethical standards of numerous organizations and avoids the exploitative use of human remains against the wishes of descendant populations.

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“…By the late 18th century, grave robbing provided the chief means of cadaver procurement in both Britain and the United States (Ross and Ross 1979;Richardson 1987;Shultz 1992;Sappol 2002;Highet 2005;Moore 2005). Clearly, only a fraction of the bodies dissected at the College of Physicians and Surgeons was obtained legally, leaving body snatching as its primary means of supply.…”

Section: Anatomy Of a Citymentioning

confidence: 99%