Treasured Possessions - Indigenous Interventions Into Cultural and Intellectual Property

Informationen zum Autor Haidy Geismar Klappentext Haidy Geismar is Lecturer in Digital Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London, and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at New York University. She is coauthor (with Anita Herle) of Moving Images: John Layard, Fieldwork, and Photography on Malakula since 1914 and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Cultural Property. Zusammenfassung The indigenous peoples of the Pacific nations of Vanuatu and New Zealand are reconfiguring global cultural and intellectual property regimes as they successfully advance claims to ancestral practices such as ephemeral sand drawings. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii 1. Introduction: Culture, Property, Indigeneity 1 2. Mapping the Terrain 25 3. Indigeneity and Law in the Pacific 45 4. Copyright in Context: Carvers, Carvings, and Commodities in Vanuatu 61 5. Trademarking Maori: Aesthetics and Appropriation in Aotearoa New Zealand 89 6. Pacific Museology and Indigenous Property Theory 121 7. Treasured Commodities: Taonga at Auction 151 8. Pig Banks: Imagining the Economy in Vanuatu 175 Conclusion 207 Notes 217 References 249 Index 283

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Haidy Geismar, Geismar Haidy
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 04.06.2013
• EAN: 9780822354123
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5412-3
• Pagine: 328
• Serie: Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories: Critical Pe; Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories: Critical Pe
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte