Content

Hi Allison, I was really impressed reading your wiki page. I’m not sure if you came across this information while conducting your research, but did you find any information regarding the historical development leading to repatriation?

Hi Cathryn,

Yes, I did! The broad history of repatriation is included in specific sections of my page, especially in nation-to-nation and the Indigenous sections, but record repatriation really comes out of the history of war, colonization and decolonization, and human rights movements. I went for breaking things up by topic and types of repatriation instead of a historical overview because I felt looking at it from a historical development angle would end up missing a lot of nuance. If you want to know more about its history very, very broadly, I found this article super helpful:

Peterson, Trudy Huskamp. “Macro Archives, Micro States.” Archivaria 50 (2000): 41-51.

Best, Allison