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Uncomfortable encounters: expected and unexpected experiences with human remains in museums

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Núm. 52 (2025): Segundo Semestre
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2025.82750
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The following article looks at the ethical considerations of displaying Human Remains in museums, considering both the deceased as well as the museum visitor. Using autoethnographic examples from various museum contexts, I discuss how encounters with Human Remains can be uncomfortable both when they are expected and unexpected. Drawing on various professional and legal codes of ethics and statements regarding the treatment of Human Remains in collections, I ask how we may, as anthropologists, tackle this issue of humanity for both the living and the deceased in museum spaces as we continue to navigate this ethical dilemma.

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museums , human remains , repatriation , indigenous , ethics
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Counts, S. (2026). Uncomfortable encounters: expected and unexpected experiences with human remains in museums. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (52), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2025.82750
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Revista Chilena de Antropología
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Universidad de Chile
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