Transactions and Creations

Zusatztext "?an intellectual coup certain to reorient thinking about the meaning of property and control of cultural production?Together there essays successfully subvert received categories?In this [they] succeed splendidly." · PoLAR Informationen zum Autor Eric Hirsch is Senior Lecturer of Social Anthropology at Brunel University. Klappentext 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! - an intellectual coup certain to reorient thinking about the meaning of property and control of cultural production - Together there essays successfully subvert received categories - In this [they] succeed splendidly.A" * PoLAR Zusammenfassung 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! Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Maril...

Autorentext
Eric Hirsch is Senior Lecturer of Social Anthropology at Brunel University.

Klappentext
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!

Inhalt
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

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