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Author Geismar, Haidy, author.

Title Treasured possessions : indigenous interventions into cultural and intellectual property / Haidy Geismar
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2013
©2013
Table of Contents
 List of Illustrationsvii
 Prefaceix
 Acknowledgmentsxiii
1.Introduction: Culture, Property, Indigeneity1
2.Mapping the Terrain25
3.Indigeneity and Law in the Pacific45
4.Copyright in Context: Carvings, Carvers, and Commodities in Vanuatu61
5.Trademarking Maori: Aesthetics and Appropriation in Aotearoa New Zealand89
6.Pacific Museology and Indigenous Property Theory121
7.Treasured Commodities: Taonga at Auction151
8.Pig Banks: Imagining the Economy in Vanuatu175
 Conclusion207
 Notes217
 References249
 Index283

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 297 pages, 8 unnumbered pages pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Objects/histories : critical perspectives on art, material culture, and representation
Objects/histories.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-281) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Cultural property -- Vanuatu
Intellectual property -- Vanuatu
Cultural property -- New Zealand
Intellectual property -- New Zealand
Ni-Vanuatu.
Māori (New Zealand people)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Cultural property
Intellectual property
Māori (New Zealand people)
Ni-Vanuatu
Geistiges Eigentum
Kulturerbe
Maori
Mana whakairo hinengaro.
Kulturarv.
Immaterialrätt.
Upphovsrätt.
Ursprungsbefolkningar.
Maori (folk)
Museer.
New Zealand
Vanuatu
Vanuatu
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822399704
0822399709