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  • 3 - The Legal Aspects of Human Remains

  • Margaret Clegg, University College London
  • Book:
    Human Remains
    Published online:
    28 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 44-56

  • Summary

    The most significant legal aspects are the legal changes in the major countries involved in repatriation requests and those in European countries, including the UK, that deal with international requests for return. The chapter also looks at how countries such as the US that have a legal framework for national returns deal with international requests and how these processes differ from those internal repatriations. The chapter also examines the more general laws pertaining to human remains, from burial laws to laws dealing with very recent remains concerning donations of bodies to science and medicine, licensing of the display of recent human remains and methods of acquisition by museums of the recently dead.

Human Remains
  • Curation, Reburial and Repatriation
  • Margaret Clegg
  • Published online:
    28 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020
  • Working with human remains raises a whole host of ethical issues, from how the remains are used to how and where they are stored. Over recent years, attitudes towards repatriation and reburial have changed considerably and there are now laws in many countries to facilitate or compel the return of remains to claimant communities. Such changes have also brought about new ways of working with and caring for human remains, while enabling their ongoing use in research projects. This has often meant a reevaluation of working practices for both the curation of remains and in providing access to them. This volume will look at the issues and difficulties inherent in holding human remains with global origins, and how diverse institutions and countries have tackled these issues. Essential reading for advanced students in biological anthropology, museum studies, archaeology and anthropology, as well as museum curators, researchers and other professionals.