Treasured Possessions Indigenous Interventions into Cultural and Intellectual Property

Name: Treasured Possessions Indigenous Interventions into Cultural and Intellectual Property
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ISBN: 9780822354277

ISBN-10: 0822354276

ISBN-13: 9780822354277

Edition: 2013

Authors: Haidy Geismar

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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"? InTreasured 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% indigenous. New…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 6/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction: Culture, Property, Indigeneity



Mapping the Terrain



Indigeneity and Law in the Pacific



Copyright in Context: Carvings, Carvers, and Commodities in Vanuatu



Trademarking Maori: Aesthetics and Appropriation in Aotearoa New Zealand



Pacific Museology and Indigenous Property Theory



Treasured Commodities: Taonga at Auction



Pig Banks: Imagining the Economy in Vanuatu


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index