TY  - BOOK
CY  - Durham (NC), USA
A1  - Geismar, Haidy
KW  - Native and Indigenous Studies
KW  -  Anthropology
KW  -  Museum Studies
KW  -  Art and Visual Culture
KW  -  Art History
N2  - 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 M?ori 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.
ID  - discovery1503236
UR  - https://www.dukeupress.edu/treasured-possessions
PB  - Duke University Press
N1  - This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
TI  - Treasured possessions: indigenous interventions into cultural and intellectual property
AV  - restricted
Y1  - 2013/06//
EP  - 328
ER  -