Transactions and creations
Subtitle: property debates and the stimulus of Melanesia
By: edited by Eric Hirsch & Marilyn Strathern.
Contributors: Hirsch, Eric, 1956-; Strathern, Marilyn.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Intellectual property; Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation; Culture and law; Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc; Ethnology -- Melanesia; Ethnobiology -- Melanesia
Description: "In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent economic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, wish to open up the vocabulary. In this unique volume, they bring an unexpected comparative perspective to global debates on intellectual and cultural property rights (IPR and CPR). The contributors bring from Melanesia their collective experience of people initiating, limiting and rationalizing claims through transactions in ways that challenge many of the assumptions behind the international language."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.