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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809394503321

Titolo

Transactions and creations : property debates and the stimulus of Melanesia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Berghahn Books, 2004

ISBN

1-84545-028-0

1-57181-615-1

Disciplina

344/.094

Soggetti

Intellectual property - Protection - Law and legislation - Melanesia

Cultural property - Legal status, laws, etc - Melanesia

Culture and law

Indigenous peoples

Ethnology

Ethnobiology

Law, Politics & Government

Law, General & Comparative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Property limits : debates on the body, nature and culture / Stuart Kirsch -- Legal options for the regulation of intellectual and cultural property in Papua New Guinea / Lawrence Kalinoe -- Seeing, knowing, owning : property claims as revelatory acts / Melissa Demian -- Transactions : an analytical foray / Marilyn Strathern -- Transactions in perpetual motion / Tony Crook -- Negotiating interests in culture / Karen Sykes -- Modes of creativity / James Leach -- Boundaries of creation : the work of credibility in science and ceremony / Eric Hirsch.