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Ethical Issues of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia

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Since the 1990s there has been an increase in bioarchaeological research in many parts of Southeast Asia by both locals and non-locals. Southeast Asian countries are characterised by varied social, cultural, and political histories, but there are also some broad similarities in terms of poor economic development that limits much local research, and strong nationalism and rigid bureaucratic procedures for research. All have implications for non-local and local bioarchaeological research. Despite the growth in bioarchaeological research, the ethics of the practice of bioarchaeology in this region remain relatively underexplored. This chapter presents some of the main ethical issues of research with human remains in the region focusing on the countries of Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and the Philippines, from a non-local and local researcher viewpoint. We review a range of ethical issues, including the varied way different cultures respond to bioarchaeological work, local-non-local partnership in research, community archaeology, bioarchaeological methods including post-excavation management, and looting of archaeological sites. With the recent development of local expertise in bioarchaeology in the region, the repatriation of skeletal samples to Thailand, the increase in local training , and partnerships between local and non-local bioarchaeologists, there is much promise for the further development of local research in the field.

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We would like to thank the many locals who have given their time and expertise in some way to making possible the bioarchaeological research in Southeast Asia. Thank you to the countries of Southeast Asia that allow this work to be undertaken and our various funding sources, including the NZ Marsden Fund and the Australian Research Council. We also thank Associate Professor Nancy Tayles for stimulating many of the ideas contained in this paper based on her keynote “Bioarcheology in Mainland Southeast Asia” given at the Society for American Archaeology Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2012.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Siân E. Halcrow & Stacey M. Ward

  2. Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

    Rebecca Crozier

  3. College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

    Kate M. Domett

  4. Department of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

    Thanik Lertcharnrit

  5. Department of Anthropology, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada

    Jennifer S. Newton

  6. School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

    Louise G. Shewan

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Halcrow, S.E. et al. (2019). Ethical Issues of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia. In: Squires, K., Errickson, D., Márquez-Grant, N. (eds) Ethical Approaches to Human Remains. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32926-6_21

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