معاملات و خلق‌ها: مباحث مالکیت و تحریک ملانزی

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. In this unique volume, they bring an unexpected comparative perspective to global debates on intellectual and cultural property rights (IPR and CPR). The contributors bring from Melanesia their collective experience of people initiating, limiting and rationalizing claims through transactions in ways that challenge many of the assumptions behind the international language. In a bold theoretical move, "property" is put alongside two other terms: "transactions" and "creations." The former have a place in the anthropological tradition that now needs to be brought into the foreground. In turn, increasing interest in protecting intellectual and cultural resources means that questions about creativity have suddenly become pertinent to what is or is not being transacted. Yet is creativity a special preoccupation of modernity? How are we to talk about people's creative practices, when innovation becomes the basis for ownership claims? This book is full of surprises! Contents Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Marilyn Strathern and Eric Hirsch PART I: PROPERTY Chapter 1. Property Limits: Debates on the Body, Nature and Culture Stuart Kirsch Chapter 2. Legal Options for the Regulation of Intellectual and Cultural Property in Papua New Guinea Lawrence Kalinoe Chapter 3. Seeing, Knowing, Owning: Property Claims as Revelatory Acts Melissa Demian PART II: TRANSACTIONS Chapter 4. Transactions: an Analytical Foray Marilyn Strathern Chapter 5. Transactions in Perpetual Motion Tony Crook Chapter 6. Negotiating Interests in Culture Karen Sykes PART III: CREATIONS Chapter 7. Modes of Creativity James Leach Chapter 8. Boundaries of Creation: the Work of Credibility in Science and Ceremony Eric Hirsch Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index "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 economic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, wish to open up the vocabulary. In this unique volume, they bring an unexpected comparative perspective to global debates on intellectual and cultural property rights (IPR and CPR). The contributors bring from Melanesia their collective experience of people initiating, limiting and rationalizing claims through transactions in ways that challenge many of the assumptions behind the international language."--BOOK JACKET.

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, negotiating interests in culture, and the work of credibility in science and ceremony. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR