standards for treatment of human remains abroad

[sniper]

sorry guys, just recovering from a nasty cold and am still coughing like a 90 year old chain smoker. will only worry when I start to grow a beak and feathers. to follow on from what troll said about leading the way and setting an example...I have seen the odd person present papers at conferences about the need for a change in attitudes to human remains in certain countries and the potential for enhancement of research aims, but they always seem to be lone voices and nothing changes. I have to say this is probably because they are not preaching to the converted, but to those who hold old fashioned but deeply embedded attitudes. I think the way to go would be to try and show the heritage communities who have no culture of human remains studies what can be done with such material. As they have no culture of such studies, they are also not likely to have attitudes that they are unwilling to change. From what little work I have done in other countries, the staff have been amazed and excited by what I could do with human remains. This excitement needs to be translated into some solid projects involving human remains

++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++