num_pages: 384
description: These fourteen essays address controversies over a variety of cultural properties, exploring them from perspectives of law, archeology, physical anthropology, ethnobiology, ethnomusicology, history, and cultural and literary study. The book divides cultural property into three Tangible,unique property like the Parthenon marbles; intangible property such as folktales, music, and folk remedies; and communal "representations," which have lead groups to censor both outsiders and insiders as cultural traitors.
language: English
title: Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity
titlecomplete: Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity (Issues & Debates)
genres: History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Oxford University Press