TY - JOUR
T1 - Repatriation, doxa, and contested heritages
T2 - The return of the Altai Princess in an international perspective
AU - Plets, Gertjan
AU - Konstantinov, Nikita
AU - Soenov, Vasilii
AU - Robinson, Erick
PY - 2013/10/1
Y1 - 2013/10/1
N2 - Using Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and doxa, the authors analyze the contested heritage debates surrounding the sensational Scythian burial discovery of the Altai Princess, also called the Ice Maiden, on the Ukok plateau. Her 2012 repatriation to a special Gazprom-funded museum in the Altai Republic of Russia is politically contextualized and compared to cases of the Kennewick Man in the United States and the Lake Mungo Burials of Australia. The authors stress the importance of "heritage in the making" and conclude that diverse approaches to the Altai Princess must be understood through the historically constituted dispositions of various agents and their interaction with the structures governing society.
AB - Using Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and doxa, the authors analyze the contested heritage debates surrounding the sensational Scythian burial discovery of the Altai Princess, also called the Ice Maiden, on the Ukok plateau. Her 2012 repatriation to a special Gazprom-funded museum in the Altai Republic of Russia is politically contextualized and compared to cases of the Kennewick Man in the United States and the Lake Mungo Burials of Australia. The authors stress the importance of "heritage in the making" and conclude that diverse approaches to the Altai Princess must be understood through the historically constituted dispositions of various agents and their interaction with the structures governing society.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84897997216&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2753/AAE1061-1959520205
DO - 10.2753/AAE1061-1959520205
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84897997216
SN - 1061-1959
VL - 52
SP - 73
EP - 98
JO - Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia
JF - Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia
IS - 2
ER -