Christopher Heaney
@chrheaney.bsky.social
Historian of science in Americas @ Penn State, writer, and editor. Wrote CRADLE OF GOLD on Machu Picchu. New book EMPIRES OF THE DEAD on Inca mummies and American anthropology. Words in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, NYT. Dreams in comics.
"While engrossed in Heaney’s book, my mind kept wandering back to that ancient huaca [a sacred monument or tomb]. As I shut my eyes ... I imagined those craters filling up again. The earth and its departed souls reunited, embarking on a journey of healing together — the ancestors and us." 2/2
March 19, 2024 at 1:24 PM
"While engrossed in Heaney’s book, my mind kept wandering back to that ancient huaca [a sacred monument or tomb]. As I shut my eyes ... I imagined those craters filling up again. The earth and its departed souls reunited, embarking on a journey of healing together — the ancestors and us." 2/2
Last, I'm not sorry for cross-posting from the hellsite. I'm happy for a non-hellsite space. But unless I've missed it, there isn't as much the conversation on the Penn story, ¿and museum issues?, happening over here that's happening over there. The silo-ing is real ... 6/6
February 4, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Last, I'm not sorry for cross-posting from the hellsite. I'm happy for a non-hellsite space. But unless I've missed it, there isn't as much the conversation on the Penn story, ¿and museum issues?, happening over here that's happening over there. The silo-ing is real ... 6/6
Again, this isn't to take away with museums' recent progress on NAGPRA. But it warns against singular definitions of reparative justice, which when pushed through can do extraordinary harm, and can even be an effort to liberate _the museum_ from its past. Which is what Penn is attempting. 5/
February 4, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Again, this isn't to take away with museums' recent progress on NAGPRA. But it warns against singular definitions of reparative justice, which when pushed through can do extraordinary harm, and can even be an effort to liberate _the museum_ from its past. Which is what Penn is attempting. 5/
As @intersectionist.bsky.social and #FindingCeremony have insisted for the Penn case, _restitution_ can be more needed in some cases than repatriation. It means not going quickly, and engaging communities with what _they are asking for_. 4/
February 4, 2024 at 3:10 PM
As @intersectionist.bsky.social and #FindingCeremony have insisted for the Penn case, _restitution_ can be more needed in some cases than repatriation. It means not going quickly, and engaging communities with what _they are asking for_. 4/
Museums need to keep looking at their failures at NAGPRA (or its misuse), to attend to Native North American's protests and pain. (Something this post can't possibly encompass.) But the contrast drives home to me how, absent legal frameworks, repatriation can become a performance—even a cover-up. 3/
February 4, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Museums need to keep looking at their failures at NAGPRA (or its misuse), to attend to Native North American's protests and pain. (Something this post can't possibly encompass.) But the contrast drives home to me how, absent legal frameworks, repatriation can become a performance—even a cover-up. 3/
This, in spite of Finding Ceremony's call for their reconnection to specific descendants, whose research showed that at least one was also Indigenous (triggering NAGPRA, and preventing their surreptitious burial). 2/
www.phillyvoice.com/penn-museum-...
www.phillyvoice.com/penn-museum-...
February 4, 2024 at 3:05 PM
This, in spite of Finding Ceremony's call for their reconnection to specific descendants, whose research showed that at least one was also Indigenous (triggering NAGPRA, and preventing their surreptitious burial). 2/
www.phillyvoice.com/penn-museum-...
www.phillyvoice.com/penn-museum-...
Of course, problem is that ‘in Quechua’ here means Quechua as written in letters, which Chas been subject to a lot of debate. So you also see malki or malqui
January 20, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Of course, problem is that ‘in Quechua’ here means Quechua as written in letters, which Chas been subject to a lot of debate. So you also see malki or malqui
I’m so glad you’re enjoying it. Can’t wait to talk more about it. My understanding is that in Quechua before a vowel LL is y, and before a consonant LL is L. Yllapa v mallki, or Yyyapa v malki.
January 20, 2024 at 5:40 PM
I’m so glad you’re enjoying it. Can’t wait to talk more about it. My understanding is that in Quechua before a vowel LL is y, and before a consonant LL is L. Yllapa v mallki, or Yyyapa v malki.
Thank you, Daniel!
January 5, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Thank you, Daniel!
December 22, 2023 at 2:22 PM
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December 21, 2023 at 11:24 PM
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December 22, 2023 at 1:35 AM
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Really? Right now? Link?
December 22, 2023 at 1:14 AM
Really? Right now? Link?