Geismar, Haidy,

Treasured possessions : indigenous interventions into cultural and intellectual property / Haidy Geismar. - xvi, 297 pages, [8] pages of plates ; illustrations, some colour ; 22 cm. - Objects/histories : critical perspectives on art, material culture, and representation. . - Objects/histories. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: culture, property, indigeneity -- Mapping the terrain -- Indigeneity and law in the Pacific -- Copyright in context : carvers, carvings and commodities in Vanuatu -- Trademarking Maori : aestheticization and inclusion in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Pacific museologies and indigenous property theories -- Treasured commodities, taonga at auction -- Pig bank: imagining the economy in Vanuatu.

9780822354277 (pbk) 9780822354123

2013004647


Cultural property--Vanuatu
Intellectual property--Vanuatu
Cultural property--New Zealand
Intellectual property--New Zealand
Ni-Vanuatu
Māori (New Zealand people)

DU760 / .G455 2013

993.00499442