Claiming the stones/naming the bones : cultural property and the negotiation of national and ethnic identity / edited by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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