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Claiming the stones/naming the bones : cultural property and the negotiation of national and ethnic identity / edited by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush.
Penn Museum Library CC135 .C48 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Issues & debates
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural property.
- Cultural property--Repatriation.
- Intellectual property.
- Intellectual property--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Group identity.
- Ethnicity.
- Physical Description:
- 371 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Naming the bones : cultural property and the negotiation of national and ethnic identity
- Cultural property and the negotiation of national and ethnic identity
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2002]
- Summary:
- Cultural property such as works of art, monuments, literature, sacred remains, and traditional practices can create a profound sense of communal belonging, yet nothing illuminates the ambiguities of group identity more powerfully than conflicting claims to such material.
- This volume addresses current controversies over various kinds of cultural property from the perspectives of archaeology, physical anthropology, ethnobiology, ethnomusicology, law, history, and cultural and literary studies. Its fifteen essays focus on tangible, unique property such as the Parthenon Marbles and the Kennewick skeleton where disagreements over custody have prompted debates about repatriation and restitution; intangible property such as the patterns of Maori tattoo whose appropriation has instigated calls for indigenous licensing and control; and figurative "representations" such as Philip Roth's portrayal of American Jewishness that have provoked both censure and censorship.
- Contents:
- Amending Historical Injustices: The Restitution of Cultural Property
- An Overview / Elazar Barkan 16
- Part I. Nationalizing Identity
- Appropriating the Stones: The "Elgin Marbles" and English National Taste / Timothy Webb 51
- Latin America, Native America, and the Politics of Culture / Clemency Coggins 97
- Objects and Identities: Claiming and Reclaiming the Past / Claire L. Lyons 116
- Part II. Codifying Birthrights
- Kennewick Man
- A Kin? Too Distant / Douglas W. Owsley, Richard L. Jantz 141
- Cultural Significance and the Kennewick Skeleton: Some Thoughts on the Resolution of Cultural Heritage Disputes / Patty Gerstenblith 162
- Part III. Legislating the Intangible
- Selling Grandma: Commodification of the Sacred through Intellectual Property Rights / Darrell Addison Posey 201
- The Stones Resung: Ethnomusicology and Cultural Property / Helene La Rue 224
- More than Skin Deep: Ta Moko Today / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku 243
- Part IV. Righting Representations
- The New Negro Displayed: Self-Ownership, Proprietary Sites/Sights, and the Bonds/Bounds of Race / Marlon B. Ross 259
- The Birth of Whose Nation? The Competing Claims of National and Ethnic Identity and the "Banning" of Huckleberry Finn / Jonathan Arac 302
- Yeats, Group Claims, and Irishry / R. F. Foster 315
- Cultural Property and Identity Politics in Britain / Robert J. C. Young 329
- Property, Schmoperty! Philip Roth, Postmodernism, and the Contradictions of Cultural Property / Ronald Bush 339.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0892366737
- OCLC:
- 50006530
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