An anthropologist explains how a South African university used community-driven research to honor human remains they acquired unethically.
A researcher explains why the Fulbright-Hays fellowship should change its rules that have kept native and heritage speakers from working where their languages are spoken.A tribal scholar from the state of Nagaland in India engages with the loss of traditional cultural practices and locates the creation of a new world order where the “natural” is increasingly isolated from the “human.
We traced historical records, conducted archaeological fieldwork, analyzed the physical remains, and conducted biomolecular analyses. Facial reconstructions were completed for eight of the nine people—now known as the Sutherland Nine. Our answers were limited. When I realized in 2017 that the remains had been unethically obtained, the department placed a moratorium on studying them. The community requested that this be lifted: They wanted them studied to understand the people and the situation. Once this was done, they wanted the remains returned so the Nine could be reburied properly.
The families of the Nine were also asked whether they wanted to be listed as authors in the eventual publications. Collectively, they chose formal acknowledgment in lieu of authorship.It is impossible to summarize all our research findings here. Overall, though, we found that life was physically hard and violent for the Sutherland Nine. One died as recently as 1913; the remaining seven died in the 1870s or 1880s.
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