Culture and culture : traditional knowledge and intellectual rights / Manuela Carneiro da Cunha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cunha, Manuela Carneiro da.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.) ; 26.

Paradigm ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual property.

Cultural property--Protection--Law and legislation.

Cultural property.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

94 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Prickly Paradigm Press, [2009]

Summary:

Brazilian anthropologist Manuela Carneiro da Cunha examines here the complex meaning- and anthropological implications- of the word " culture" for indigenous peoples. Caneiro da Cunha explores the contradictions inherent in the interface between Western and traditional understandings of knowledge and intellectual property rights. Distinguishing culture from " culture, " the latter being a reflexive awareness of one' s culture, Carneiro da Cunha then poses questions such as: What are the cognitive and pragmatic consequences when " culture" and culture coexist? She shows how the word " culture, " as used in the anthropological sense, is employed by indigenous people to distinguish the different interpretations and avoid contradictions. "" Culture" and Culture" offers a concise and innovative anthropological study of a crucial issue faced by indigenous peoples the world over.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780976147565

0976147564

OCLC:

150357348

Publisher Number:

99936113652