Who Owns Native Culture?
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: September 29, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780674011717
Subjects: Cultural studies; Indigenous peoples; Intellectual property, copyright & patents; Legal status, laws, etc; Intellectual property; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Law; Property; General; Law / Property; Cultural property; Protection
Description: "Documents the efforts of indigenous peoples to redefine heritage as a protected resource. Michael Brown takes readers into settings where native peoples defend what they consider to be their cultural property ... By focusing on the complexity of actual cases, Brown casts light on indigenous grievances in diverse fields ... He finds both genuine injustice and, among advocates for native peoples, a troubling tendency to mimic the privatizing logic of major corporations"--Jacket.