Haidy Geismar

Treasured Possessions

Indigenous Interventions into Cultural and Intellectual Property

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Produktbeschreibung

In Treasured Possessions, Haidy Geismar examines how global forms of cultural and intellectual property are being redefined by everyday people and policymakers in two markedly different Pacific nations: Vanuatu and New Zealand.

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Haidy Geismar is Lecturer in Digital Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London, and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at New York University. She is coauthor (with Anita Herle) of Moving Images: John Layard, Fieldwork, and Photography on Malakula since 1914 and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Cultural Property .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 168mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354277
• ISBN-10: 0822354276
• Artikelnr.: 36694237

Autorenporträt

Haidy Geismar

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
1. Introduction: Culture, Property, Indigeneity 1
2. Mapping the Terrain 25
3. Indigeneity and Law in the Pacific 45
4. Copyright in Context: Carvers, Carvings, and Commodities in Vanuatu 61
5. Trademarking Maori: Aesthetics and Appropriation in Aotearoa New Zealand
89
6. Pacific Museology and Indigenous Property Theory 121
7. Treasured Commodities: Taonga at Auction 151
8. Pig Banks: Imagining the Economy in Vanuatu 175
Conclusion 207
Notes 217
References 249
Index 283