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Treasured Possessions - Haidy Geismar

Treasured Possessions

Indigenous Interventions into Cultural and Intellectual Property

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Buch | Hardcover
328 Seiten
2013
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5412-3 (ISBN)
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The indigenous peoples of the Pacific nations of Vanuatu and New Zealand are reconfiguring global cultural and intellectual property regimes as they successfully advance claims to ancestral practices such as ephemeral sand drawings.
What happens when ritual practitioners from a small Pacific nation make an intellectual property claim to bungee jumping? When a German company successfully sues to defend its trademark of a Māori name? Or when UNESCO deems ephemeral sand drawings to be "intangible cultural heritage"? 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. The New Hebrides, a small archipelago in Melanesia managed jointly by Britain and France until 1980, is now the independent nation-state of Vanuatu, with a population that is more than 95 percent indigenous. New Zealand, by contrast, is a settler state and former British colony that engages with its entangled Polynesian and British heritage through an ethos of "biculturalism" that is meant to involve an indigenous population of just 15 percent. Alternative notions of property, resources, and heritage—informed by distinct national histories—are emerging in both countries. These property claims are advanced in national and international settings, but they emanate from specific communities and cultural landscapes, and they are grounded in an awareness of ancestral power and inheritance. They reveal intellectual and cultural property to be not only legal constructs but also powerful ways of asserting indigenous identities and sovereignties.

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.

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

Reihe/Serie Objects/Histories
Zusatzinfo 26 illustrations, 2 maps
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 171 x 216 mm
Gewicht 703 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8223-5412-8 / 0822354128
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-5412-3 / 9780822354123
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