Final Report Namibia Workshop March 2018
By: Dr. Jeremy Silvester and Ms. Paige Linner
Introduction
The workshop was a result of a collaborative project between the Commonwealth Association of Museums, Museums Association of Namibia, IZIKO Museums of South Africa, the Botswana National Museum, the International Council of Museums (ICOM), International Council of Museums of Ethnography (ICME), ICOM Namibia, ICOM South Africa and ICOM Botswana
The aim of the project is to support the development of management guidelines and policy for human remains in museums in Southern Africa. The workshop in Namibia built on a previous workshop that took place in Cape Town, South Africa the 13th-14th February, 2017. The first workshop was hosted by IZIKO Museums of South Africa and focused on sharing information about the history of human remains collecting in southern Africa and management internationally, and the appraisal that IZIKO had conducted of their human remains collection The appraisal identified 157 remains that had been collected `unethically’ in terms of the ways in which they had been obtained and/or the purpose for which they had been obtained The majority of these `unethically’ collected human remains were identified as having been obtained from Namibia and Botswana and this was the reason why the project has, initially, concentrated on these three countries
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