We'll be discussing the ethics of display of visual and material culture, with the following readings:
Wandile Kasibe, "The Skulls of Our Ancestors," News24 (March 18, 2018), https://www.news24.com/news24/Columnists/GuestColumn/the-skulls-of-our-a...
Jane Nicholas, "A Debt to the Dead? Ethics, Photography, History, and the Study of Freakery," Social History 47 (2014): 139-155.
Paul Weindling, "'Cleansing' Anatomical Collections: The Politics of Removing Specimens from German Anatomical and Medical Collections, 1988-92," Annals of Anatomy 194 (2012): 237-242.
The Weindling and Nicholas readings are in the PDF, and the Kasibe article can be accessed via the link above.
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