The Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Programme: Taking the Ancestors home

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Mourning the Dead: Connecting histories of people, places, and remains

Mourning the Dead Podcast

10 episodes

3 days ago

This podcast brings together different histories connected to the mortal remains of people and their violent dislocation during or in the aftermath of colonial rule; their meaning for the remembrance of slavery; their role in anticolonial and postcolonial struggles, memory politics, the undoing of scientific racism and the work of restitution. The podcast focuses on histories connected to the African continent. It is the intent of this collection of histories, to present them as part of the work of mourning – a mourning that can initiate and strengthen transformation in the present.

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The Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Programme: Taking the Ancestors home

Mourning the Dead: Connecting histories of people, places, and remains

35 minutes 2 seconds

1 year ago

The Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Programme: Taking the Ancestors home

In this episode, we embark on a journey with the Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Programme, which is situated at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Programme is as an indigenous-led and government-mandated authority who negotiates the return of ancestral remains from both public and private collections nationally and internationally. Since the programme was established in 2003, they have brought back more than 850 ancestors from different institutions across the world.

This is the English version of this podcast. You can also listen to the version in French.

Credits
Author: Te Herekiekie Herewini
Script editing: Sophie Schasiepen with support from Andri Burnett
Narrators: Te Herekiekie Herewini and Mamello Makhetha
Producer / editor: Andri Burnett
Executive Producer: Sophie Schasiepen

Nguru (flute) melodies played by Te Herekiekie Herewini.

Further Reading

References included official communication of the Rouen Museum, communication of the Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Programme, a film by Philippe Tourancheau, the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the protection and promotion of the cultural diversity of cultural expressions, Te Herekiekie Herewini’s dissertation and published articles, and the history of the two brothers, Tāwhaki and Karihi. Please find the full references listed here.

Funding

The Mourning the Dead podcast was produced as part of the contribution by the University of the Western Cape to the research project “Reconnecting 'Objects': Epistemic Plurality and Transformative Practices in and beyond Museums”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.