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Transactions and creations : property debates and the stimulus of Melanesia / edited by Eric Hirsch and Marilyn Strathern.

Van Pelt Library K1401 .T736 2004
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Hirsch, Eric, 1956-
Strathern, Marilyn.
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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