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Transactions and Creations: Property Debates and The Stimulus of Melanesia Eric Hirsch
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Transactions and Creations: Property Debates and The Stimulus of Melanesia
Eric Hirsch
In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent conomic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, wish to open up the vocabulary.
Marc Notes: Bibl. ref. & index.; Based on pre-pub. info. only. Publisher Marketing: British and American anthropologists and a law scholar from Papua New Guinea explore how the concept of cultural property plays within the cultural and intellectual world of the Pacific islands of Melanesia. Among their topics are legal options for regulating intellectual and cultural property in Papua New Guinea, property claims as revelatory acts
Contributor Bio: Hirsch, Eric Hirsch is Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University. Contributor Bio: Strathern, Marilyn Marilyn Strathern is William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. She has carried out fieldwork over several years in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Melanesia). She is the author of several works including Kinship at the Core, After Nature and Property, Substance and Effect.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 1, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9781571816153 |
| Publishers | Berghahn Books, Incorporated |
| Genre | Cultural Region > Asian Studies |
| Pages | 248 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 16 mm · 498 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Hirsch, Eric |
| Editor | Strathern, Marilyn |
