On today’s episode, Jessica hosts Dr. Michael Blakey, National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology, Africana Studies, American Studies and Founding Director of the Institute for Historical Biology at the College of William and Mary and the Co-Chair of the American Anthropological Association’s Commission for the Ethical Treatment of Human Remains. Dr. Blakey carries us on his lifetime journey in the field of Anthropology, including his childhood looking for archaeological artifacts, serving as the Scientific Director of New York City’s colonial African Burial Ground archaeological site, and the development of NAGPRA. He focuses on the ethics and best practices of working with human remains, especially the importance of empowered descendant communities and serving them as the ethical client of any project.

TranscriptsFor rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/74Links

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• AAA Commission for the Ethical Treatment of Human Remains:
• Walking the ancestors home: On the Road to an Ethical Human Biology Article
• African Burial Ground Archaeology Reports
• African American Burial Grounds Preservation Act passed via the Omnibus Bill in December 2022
• UPenn Report on the handling of human remains from the 1985 MOVE tragedy:
• Florida blocks high school African American studies class (Article):
• Engaging Descendant Communities in the Interpretation of Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites: A Rubric of Best Practices
• Social policy, economics, and demographic change in Nanticoke-Moor ethnohistory (1988 Article in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 75(4))

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