Negotiating culture : heritage, ownership, and intellectual property / edited by Laetitia La Follette.

Contributor(s):

La Follette, Laetitia Amelia

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts, 2013.Description: vi, 207 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781625340085 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

363.69

Contents:

Negotiating ownership claims : changing attitudes toward cultural property / Laetitia La Follette -- The politics of archaeology : heritage, ownership, and repatriation / Joe Watkins -- The trial of Marion True and changing policies for classical antiquities in American museums -- Appendix : art repatriated to Italy and Greece through 2010 / Laetitia La Follette -- The Salamanca papers : a cultural property episode in post-Franco Spain / Oriol Pi-Sunyer and Susan M. DiGiacomo -- Language ownership and language ideologies / Margaret Speas -- Archaeologists, indigenous intellectual property, and oral history / H. Martin Wobst -- Re-owning the past : DNA and the politics of belonging / Banu Subramaniam -- Digital commons : the rise of new models of collaborative ownership / David Bollier -- Afterword : ownership and the boundary / Stephen Clingman.

Summary: "Rival claims of ownership or control over various aspects of culture are a regular feature of our twenty-first-century world. Such debates are shaping disciplines as diverse as anthropology and archaeology, art history and museum studies, linguistics and genetics. This provocative collection of essays - a series of case studies in cultural ownership by scholars from a range of fields - explores issues of cultural heritage and intellectual property in a variety of contexts, from contests over tangible artifacts as well as more abstract forms of culture such as language and oral traditions to current studies of DNA and genes that combine nature and culture, and even new, nonproprietary models for the sharing of digital technologies. Each chapter setts the debate in its historical and disciplinary context and suggests how the approaches to these issues are changing or should change. One of the most innovative aspects of the volume is the way each author recognizes the social dimensions of group ownership and demonstrates the need for negotiation and new models. The collection as a whole thus challenges the reader to reevaluate traditional ways of thinking about cultural ownership and to examine the broader social contexts within which negotiation over the ownership of culture is taking place."-- Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book - 7-day loan	CYA Library Main Collection	363.69 LAF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000009626

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Rival claims of ownership or control over various aspects of culture are a regular feature of our twenty-first-century world. Such debates are shaping disciplines as diverse as anthropology and archaeology, art history and museum studies, linguistics and genetics.
This provocative collection of essays - a series of case studies in cultural ownership by scholars from a range of fields - explores issues of cultural heritage and intellectual property in a variety of contexts, from contests over tangible artifacts as well as more abstract forms of culture such as language and oral traditions to current studies of DNA and genes that combine nature and culture, and even new, nonproprietary models for the sharing of digital technologies. Each chapter setts the debate in its historical and disciplinary context and suggests how the approaches to these issues are changing or should change.
One of the most innovative aspects of the volume is the way each author recognizes the social dimensions of group ownership and demonstrates the need for negotiation and new models. The collection as a whole thus challenges the reader to reevaluate traditional ways of thinking about cultural ownership and to examine the broader social contexts within which negotiation over the ownership of culture is taking place."-- Publisher's description.