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Transactions and creations : property debates and the stimulus of Melanesia / edited by Eric Hirsch and Marilyn Strathern.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectual property.
- Cultural property--Protection--Law and legislation.
- Cultural property.
- Culture and law.
- Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Ethnology--Melanesia.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnobiology.
- Melanesia.
- Ethnobiology--Melanesia.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 230 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2004.
- Contents:
- Part I Property
- 1 Property Limits: Debates on the Body, Nature and Culture / Stuart Kirsch 21
- 2 Legal Options for the Regulation of Intellectual and Cultural Property in Papua New Guinea / Lawrence Kalinoe 40
- 3 Seeing, Knowing, Owning: Property Claims as Revelatory Acts / Melissa Demian 60
- Part II Transactions
- 4 Transactions: an Analytical Foray / Marilyn Strathern 85
- 5 Transactions in Perpetual Motion / Tony Crook 110
- 6 Negotiating Interests in Culture / Karen Sykes 132
- Part III Creations
- 7 Modes of Creativity / James Leach 151
- 8 Boundaries of Creation: the Work of Credibility in Science and Ceremony / Eric Hirsch 176.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-216) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1571816151
- OCLC:
- 55016147
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