Introduction

The repatriation of human remains is a significant Indigenous achievement and global inter-cultural movement that requires greater recognition and understanding. This volume brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous expertise from fourteen countries to provide the reader with an international overview of scholarship about the removal and return of Indigenous Ancestral Remains. The volume contributes major new work, illustrates new facets of what can now be termed ‘repatriation studies’, and documents how much this field has developed over the past thirty years.