Confronting historical legacies of biological anthropology in South Africa-Restitution, redress and community-centered science: The Sutherland Nine.

Confronting historical legacies of biological anthropology in South Africa-Restitution, redress and community-centered science: The Sutherland Nine.

We describe a process of restitution of nine unethically acquired human skeletons to their families, together with attempts at redress. Between 1925-1927 C.E., the skeletonised remains of nine San or Khoekhoe people, eight of them known-in-life, were removed from their graves on the farm Kruisrivier...

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Main Authors: Victoria E Gibbon, Loretta Feris, Joscha Gretzinger, Kathryn Smith, Simon Hall, Nigel Penn, Tinashe E M Mutsvangwa, Michaela Heale, Devin A Finaughty, Yvonne W Karanja, Jan Esterhuyse, Daniël Kotze, Nina Barnes, Geney Gunston, Je'nine May, Johannes Krause, Caroline M Wilkinson, Stephan Schiffels, Doreen Februarie, Sianne Alves, Judith C Sealy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284785

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