Treasured possessions : indigenous interventions into cultural and intellectual property / Haidy Geismar.

Author/creator Geismar, Haidy
Format Book
PublicationDurham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxvi, 297 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesObjects/histories : critical perspectives on art, material culture, and representation
Objects/histories. ^A476603
Contents Introduction: culture, property, indigeneity -- Mapping the terrain -- Indigeneity and law in the Pacific -- Copyright in context : carvers, carvings and commodities in Vanuatu -- Trademarking Maori : aestheticization and inclusion in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Pacific museologies and indigenous property theories -- Treasured commodities, taonga at auction -- Pig bank: imagining the economy in Vanuatu.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 249-281) and index.
LCCN 2013004647
ISBN9780822354277
ISBN9780822354123 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822354128 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822354276 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks DU760 .G455 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold