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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Force of Family
• Subtitle: Repatriation, Kinship, and Memory on Haida Gwaii
• Author: Cara Krmpotich
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9781442646575
• ISBN: 1442646578
• ID: 04797663
• Publisher: University Of Toronto Press
• Weight: 480 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 157 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. May 2014

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