| Title |
Ethics and exhibition of historical human body casts: a brief case study from Pompeii, Campania Region, Southern Italy with an activist lens |
| Authors |
Piombino Mascali, Dario ; Sablone, Sara |
| DOI |
10.1007/978-3-032-10354-3_13 |
| ISBN |
9783032103536 |
| eISBN |
9783032103543 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice: Equitable and Sustainable Global Futures / editors Siân E. Halcrow, Sabrina C. Agarwal, Carlina de la Cova, Rebecca Gowland, Gwen Robbins Schug.. Cham : Springer, 2026. p. 241-251.. ISBN 9783032103536. eISBN 9783032103543 |
| Keywords [eng] |
ethics ; bioarchaeology ; activism |
| Abstract [eng] |
Is it ethically acceptable to exhibit casts of human corpses in a museum context? This question is not merely academic—it is a moral imperative that demands we confront archaeology’s complicity in systems of dehumanization and structural vio- lence. As scholar-activists we must move beyond asking whether we should display human remains to interrogating why we do so, whose interests are served, and what structural inequalities are reproduced in the process (Blakey, 2020; de la Cova et al., 2024)? Casts of human bodies at the moment of catastrophic death are not just archaeological artifacts; they are the preserved anguish of individuals, whose vul- nerability became cemented in volcanic ash and later commodified for scientific and public gaze (Petrone, 2021). |
| Published |
Cham : Springer, 2026 |
| Type |
Book part |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2026 |
| CC license |
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