Abstract
The repatriation of indigenous remains and cultural patrimony can trigger anxiety among the settler majority. Performing as surrogates for the Americas’ un-grieved genocidal past, these remains, and the mourning performances that accompany their sometimes-embattled repatriation, illuminate the continuous violence against indigenous people that infiltrates even settler societies’ most reparative laws.
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©2015 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015
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