Claiming the stones/naming the bones : cultural property and the negotiation of national and ethnic identity /

Claiming the stones/naming the bones : cultural property and the negotiation of national and ethnic identity / edited by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush. - ix, 371 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Issues & debates . - Issues & debates. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Amending Historical Injustices: The Restitution of Cultural Property - An Overview / Appropriating the Stones: The "Elgin Marbles" and English National Taste / Latin America, Native America, and the Politics of Culture / Objects and Identities: Claiming and Reclaiming the Past / Kennewick Man - A Kin? Too Distant / Cultural Significance and the Kennewick Skeleton: Some Thoughts on the Resolution of Cultural Heritage Disputes / Selling Grandma: Commodification of the Sacred through Intellectual Property Rights / The Stones Resung: Ethnomusicology and Cultural Property / More than Skin Deep: Ta Moko Today / The New Negro Displayed: Self-Ownership, Proprietary Sites/Sights, and the Bonds/Bounds of Race / The Birth of Whose Nation? The Competing Claims of National and Ethnic Identity and the "Banning" of Huckleberry Finn / Yeats, Group Claims, and Irishry / Cultural Property and Identity Politics in Britain / Property, Schmoperty! Philip Roth, Postmodernism, and the Contradictions of Cultural Property / Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush -- Elazar Barkan -- Timothy Webb -- Clemency Coggins -- Claire L. Lyons -- Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz -- Patty Gerstenblith -- Darrell Addison Posey -- Helene La Rue -- Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- Marlon B. Ross -- Jonathan Arac -- R. F. Foster -- Robert J. C. Young -- Ronald Bush.

Cultural property such as works of art, monuments, literature, sacred remains and traditional practices can create a profound sense of communal belonging, yet nothing illuminates the ambiguities of group identity more powerfully than conflicting claims to such material. Addresses current controversies: Elgin marbles, Kennewick skeleton.

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Cultural property--Repatriation
Intellectual property--Moral and ethical aspects
Group identity
Ethnicity

CC135 / .C48 2002

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