On our latest episode Gudrun talks about the cultural practice and history surrounding tsantsas or "shrunken heads" from a deconstructivist and and decolonial lens. Together Gudrun and Megan talk about how to treat human remains in museums and the question of repatriation.

Sources:

‘Severed’ - Frances Larson

‘Should We Be Displaying the Dead Bodies of Preserved Ancestors?’ - Hyperallergic, Christina Riggs

‘Bog Bodies: Representing the Dead’ – Melanie Giles

‘On the treatment of dead enemies: indigenous human remains in Britain in the early twenty-first century’ – Laura Peers

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