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)