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Theatre in Contested Lands: Repatriating Indigenous Remains
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 59, Number 1, Spring 2015 (T225)
- pp. 97-118
- Article
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The repatriation of indigenous remains and cultural patrimony can trigger anxiety among the settler majority. Performing as surrogates for the Americas’ un-grieved genocidal past, these remains, and the mourning performances that accompany their sometimes-embattled repatriation, illuminate the continuous violence against indigenous people that infiltrates even settler societies’ most reparative laws.