?️ Sign up to Camp for free:  https://camp.beehiiv.com/Professor Elizabeth Weiss is an American Anthropologist, Archaeologist & Historian with controversial views on the repatriation of skeletal remains for reburial. She has battled universities in court and tested the boundaries of how academic culture butts heads with ethics and woke culture. I hope you enjoy this convo! Welcome to CAMP!Elizabeth's new book, On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors, is out this week! Amazon link: https://a.co/d/1Iwq8GL. S/o to   @bakscapeTM ,   @forthepeople   and  @BlueChew   for sponsoring this episode!Intro by Christos PapastefanouProduced by  @99OvrAll  ** TIMESTAMPS **00:00 Intro1:06 Is Politics overreaching into Science?4:00 Who has reasonable claims to discoveries? Impact of NAGPRA10:50 Talking specifics with Tribal actions + Weiss’ reading of History17:38 Generalizations, people aren’t monoliths + individuals from the past23:36 Tribes shouldn’t have precedence over Anthropologists27:56 The Kennewick Man + Multiple migrations to America?37:20 NAGPRA overreach + political ramifications41:55 Are there alternatives? Positive repatriation cases = Sitting Bull49:33 Strength of links to the past + impact of looting54:26 You can handle bones with no gloves58:05 Coming to an agreement + menstruation was a sticking point1:01:31 Weiss’ real beef is religious fundamentalism1:07:00 Determining links to the past1:10:11 Weiss views on Postmodernism, Wokeism + Islam1:14:00 How do Native Americans feel about Weiss?1:18:03 Any regrets from her Academic past?1:24:06 Finding the balance + reasonable religious objections1:27:26 Research’s real life consequences1:28:57 Sex and gender in Anthropology + pushback1:35:40 You can pathologize bones + finding all impacts on our remains1:41:30 Weiss view on transpeople + adults should be afforded all rights1:46:56 Excluding sex from archeology + rejecting female hunter-gatherers1:51:33 Academia endorsing sex non-binary + secret support for Weiss1:58:02 How can we resolve this? NAGPRA being repealed?