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Properties of Culture - Culture as Property

Kasten, Erich (ed.) Properties of Culture - Culture as Property Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia Siberian Studies 2004, Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin 323 pp., 19 illus., 1 map, index, 13,5 x 20,5 cm Euro 39,­ (D) / sFr 67,50 paper, ISBN 3-496-02768-1 Order from: vertrieb-kunstverlage@reimer-verlag.de

Preface 1
Erich Kasten PDF

Introduction

Ways of owning and sharing cultural property 9
Erich Kasten
[Itelmens, Koryaks, Evens, Kwakwaka'wakw, cultural property, intellectual property, indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, authenticity, identity, ethnicity, arts, dance, open access (to data), collaborations, museums, repatriation, feasts] PDF

Imagined authenticities and complex realities

Is being "really" Iñupiaq a form of cultural property? 35
Barbara Bodenhorn
[Iñupiat, cultural property, authenticity, identity, ethnicity, whaling] PDF

The authenticity of cultural properties in the Russian Far East 51
Alexander D. King
[Koryaks, cultural property, authenticity, identity, ethnicity, dance] PDF  

Sakha pop music and ethnicity 67
Aimar Ventsel
[Sakha, cultural property, identity, ethnicity, authenticity, pop music] PDF

Culture as property? Some Saami dilemmas 87
Trond Thuen
[Saami, cultural property, authenticity, identity, ethnicity, native/territorial rights] PDF

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Law and the protection of native culture

Protecting cultural expressions: The perspective of law 111
Silke von Lewinski
[cultural property, intellectual property, legislation] PDF

Culture, commodity and community: Developing the Khanty-Mansi Okrug Law on protecting native folklore 129
Andrew Wiget and Olga Balalaeva
[Khanty, Mansi, cultural heritage, folklore, legislation, ritual and ceremony, bear ritual, commodification] PDF

Sacred sites and sanctuaries in Northern Russia 159
Alona Yefimenko
[Nenets, Koryaks, Evens, indigenous knowledge, sacred sites, legislation] PDF

Museum collections and cultural heritage

Object lessons: Collecting wooden spirits and wax voices
as Cultural Property 171
Thomas Ross Miller
[Yukagirs, cultural property, museums, collections, methods, fieldwork, data collecting, music, arts, oral tradition, ritual and ceremony, shamanism, sacred sites) PDF

Heritage and/or property: The ethnographic collections in Russian museums 203
Julia A. Kupina
[Nenets, Buryats, cultural property, cultural heritage, museums, collections, exhibitions, repatriation]
PDF

Beyond repatriation: Collaborations between museums and Alaska native communities 217
Sonja Lührmann
[Aleuts, Yupiit, cultural property, cultural heritage, museums, collections, exhibitions, repatriation]
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The politics of culture in ethnonational discourses

Whose homeland is it? Shifting boundaries and multiple identities
in the Russian Federation North 233
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
[Khanty, Mansi, Sakha, ethnic politics, identities, ethnicity, self-government, post-Soviet transformations] PDF

Diamonds: Contested symbol in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) 257
Tatiana Argounova-Low
[Sakha, cultural property, self-government, rights (to mineral resources), post-Soviet transformations]
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Traditionalism and neoliberalism: The Norwegian folk dress in the 21st century 267
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
[Norwegians, cultural property, local identities, cultural heritage, cultural continuity and change, commodification] PDF

Epilogue

The cartography of copyright cultures versus the proliferation
of public properties 289
Chris Hann
[Russian north, cultural property, culture concept, European music] PDF

Notes on the contributors 305

Index 309

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Last update: 19 April 2004