Transactions and Creations

Property Debates and The Stimulus of Melanesia
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-84545-028-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

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!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hirsch, Eric

Strathern, Marilyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

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

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

Über Autor(innen)

Strathern, Marilyn
Marilyn Strathern is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge

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

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