{"title":"Discuss, Debate, Delay: How Museums Filibuster the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act","authors":"Audrey Briana Andrews, Tanner Scot Barney","doi":"10.1111/muan.70034","DOIUrl":"10.1111/muan.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Museums and federal agencies regularly circumvent requirements of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The 2024 NAGPRA regulation updates closed some loopholes, but institutions continue to filibuster the NAGPRA process through both intention and ignorance. Instead of working toward repatriation, academics continue to theorize and write about NAGPRA. Additionally, museums and federal agencies fail to understand the definition and intentions of consultation and repatriation. Consultation initiation should occur intentionally, and all NAGPRA professionals should recognize that repatriation is about possession or control as opposed to custody. By accurately adhering to the NAGPRA process, NAGPRA practitioners may better serve Native peoples.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147323835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy","authors":"Valentina Gamberi","doi":"10.1111/muan.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1111/muan.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region (mainland China) in the early 20th century. As a trace, it is a multitemporal artifact accounting for missionary and local ambivalence toward statues of folk deities. Whilst missionaries saw the latter as a tool for their preaching practice and the target of iconoclasm, local folk believers—regardless of their religious affiliation—feared the residual spiritual potency of folk deities' statues discarded after religious conversions and iconoclasm. Traces of both approaches toward folk deities' statues emerge from missionary literary accounts and are partly retraceable in curatorial practice. Analyzing traces in missionary fiction suggests direction in provenance research blocked by inaccessible and fragmented archives.</p>","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/muan.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146256245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Twice Removed”: Indigenous Siberian Ethnographic Collections in U.S. Museums","authors":"Igor Krupnik","doi":"10.1111/muan.70032","DOIUrl":"10.1111/muan.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper explores the status of Indigenous ethnographic collections from Siberia—objects, photographic, and other heritage records—that were moved outside Russia to museums in the United States (North America). The collections now held at seven American museums are treated here as “twice removed,” that is, both geographically and intellectually, from their original homelands. This study is a response to the growing interest in the status of Siberian collections by museum and heritage professionals, and primarily by Siberian diaspora experts and cultural activists. Such collections are now viewed as a new resource that can help sustain heritage preservation in both home and diaspora communities and advance transnational collaboration. Sharing knowledge about Siberian ethnographic collections in Western museums is a rapidly growing activity aimed at co-creating knowledge with Indigenous experts and at building ways to reconnect the collections, via online access and other means, with home communities and other audiences when international connections, broken since 2022, resume.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146139242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conflict, Calaveras, and Context: An Exhibition Event Review at the Met","authors":"Garrett Cessna","doi":"10.1111/muan.70031","DOIUrl":"10.1111/muan.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>On Friday September 27, 2024, The Metropolitan Museum of Art held an exhibition event entitled “Celebration and Resistance: Mexican Prints at the Vanguard,” a 1 h public program which accompanied the museum's temporary exhibition–<i>Mexican Prints at the Vanguard</i> (September 12, 2024–January 5, 2025). The goal of the event was to explore the tradition of printmaking in Mexico and its use in the spread of political ideology before, during, and after the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). While the event provided significant sociohistorical background on many of the exhibited artworks, discourse at the event lacked in-depth discussion of Indigeneity as well as how political ideologies spread by print mediums relate to and impact Indigenous peoples and communities within Mexico. However, the event proved to be an effective advertising strategy for other upcoming Hispanic Heritage Month events at The Met, and an excellent example of bilingual Spanish-English public programming.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146083355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meggy Merlin Mokay, Hilma Pami Putri, Haya Haratikka
{"title":"Learning to Listen in the Museum: A Personal Reflection on Participation and Power","authors":"Meggy Merlin Mokay, Hilma Pami Putri, Haya Haratikka","doi":"10.1111/muan.70030","DOIUrl":"10.1111/muan.70030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146002042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}