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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Brown, Michael F. (Michael Fobes), 1950- Who owns native culture? Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003 (OCoLC)606161582 Online version: Brown, Michael F. (Michael Fobes), 1950- Who owns native culture? Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003 (OCoLC)607056941 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael F Brown |
| ISBN: | 0674011716 9780674011717 0674016335 9780674016330 |
| OCLC Number: | 51722860 |
| Description: | xii, 315 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | The missionary's photographs -- Cultures and copyrights -- Sign wars -- Ethnobotany blues -- Negotiating mutual respect -- At the edge of the indigenous -- Native heritage in the iron cage -- Finding justice in the global commons. |
| Responsibility: | Michael F. Brown. |
Abstract:
Documenting the efforts of indigenous peoples to redefine heritage as a proprietary resource, this volume takes you into the settings where native people defend what they consider to be their cultural property.
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For the uninitiated, Michael Brown's thoughtful book, "Who Owns Native Culture?", can serve as a welcome point of entry into current debates on cultural property. Written for a general audience in an engaging style, the book offers a virtual fieldtrip in which readers are introduced to the issues through consideration of recent court cases, public debates, and policy developments..."Who Owns Native Culture?" is a rich introduction to discussions that will occupy us for the foreseeable future and that will surely lead in unexpected directions.--Jason Baird Jackson"Journal of American Folklore" (01/01/2006) Read more...
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- Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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- Etnobotanie.
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