Returning human remains to descendants is standard museum practice

Evidence

To that point, the amicus brief filed jointly by Dan Hicks, a professor of contemporary archaeology at Oxford University, and Nicholas Mirzoeff, a professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University, echoed Drake’s and Azoulay’s questions around repatriation and restitution, emphasizing that “it is a normal, mainstream museum process for human skulls and sacred ancestral cultural items to be returned to descendant individuals and communities on a case-by-case basis.” — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1244

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the operative standard — case-by-case repatriation of human remains to descendants — against which Harvard’s conduct is being judged.