Copyright Thing Doesn''t Work Here - Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana

Informationen zum Autor Boatema Boateng is associate professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego. Klappentext The intersection of Western intellectual property law and traditional knowledge in Africa. Zusammenfassung The intersection of Western intellectual property law and traditional knowledge in Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Indexes of Culture and Power 1. The Tongue Does Not Rot: Authorship, Ancestors, and Cloth 2. The Women Don't Know Anything! Gender, Cloth Production, and Appropriation 3. Your Face Doesn't Go Anywhere: Cultural Production and Legal Subjectivity 4. We Run a Single Country: The Politics of Appropriation 5. This Work Cannot Be Rushed: Global Flows, Global Regulation Conclusion: Why Should the Copyright Thing Work Here? Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Boatema Boateng, BOATENG BOATEMA
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2011
• EAN: 9780816670031
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-7003-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies; First Peoples: New Directions; First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Stu...; First Peoples: New Directions Indigenous; First Peoples: New Directions Indigenous; First Peoples: New Directions
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories