Academics call for cancellation of university-published archaeology book
Academics around North America have called for a new book published by the University Press of Florida to be discontinued, calling it “racist garbage.” The book, “Repatriation and Erasing the Past,” delves into a three-decade old federal law known as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which generally governs how researchers and archaeologists must treat the bones of Native Americans when they are found. The authors, anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss and attorney James Springer, take a “critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums ...
Source: thecollegefix.com