Who owns native culture?

Brown, Michael F. (Michael Fobes) 1950- (Author).

Summary: "Documents the efforts of indigenous peoples to redefine heritage as a protected resource. Michael Brown takes readers into settings where native peoples defend what they consider to be their cultural property ... By focusing on the complexity of actual cases, Brown casts light on indigenous grievances in diverse fields ... He finds both genuine injustice and, among advocates for native peoples, a troubling tendency to mimic the privatizing logic of major corporations"--jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0674011716 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780674011717 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-301) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The missionary's photographs -- Cultures and copyrights -- Sign wars -- Ethnobotany blues -- Negotiating mutual respect -- At the edge of the indigenous -- Native heritage in the iron cage -- Finding justice in the global commons.