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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 |
Indigenous groups are reshaping and claiming possession of symbols, not only in the Russian North and other circumpolar regions but worldwide. In addition to material objects and practices, knowledge itself is increasingly claimed as the exclusive heritage of a specific group, whose members then assert privileges on this basis. The commodification of culture as a form of property is a product of complex processes of identity construction. Native groups in the circumpolar North, although sharing similar natural environments, have experienced very different political histories. This book explores the consequences of this variation for the ways in which culture is nowadays celebrated, but also manipulated and reified. The main focus is on Siberia, but the studies will also be of interest to all those following the theoretical and practical debates concerning three key concepts of contemporary anthropology: culture, property and indigeneity.
Erich Kasten
Preface 1 PDF
Introduction
Erich Kasten
Ways of owning and sharing cultural property 9
PDF
Imagined authenticities and complex realities
Barbara Bodenhorn
Is being "really" Iñupiaq a form of cultural
property? 35 PDF
Alexander D. King
The authenticity of cultural properties in the
Russian Far East
51 PDF
Aimar Ventsel
Sakha pop music and ethnicity 67 PDF
Trond Thuen
Culture as property? Some Saami dilemmas 87 PDF
Law and the protection of native culture
Silke von Lewinski
Protecting cultural expressions: The perspective of
law 111 PDF
Andrew Wiget and Olga Balalaeva
Culture, commodity and community: Developing the
Khanty-Mansi Okrug Law
on protecting native folklore 129 PDF
Alona Yefimenko
Sacred sites and sanctuaries in Northern Russia
159 PDF
Museum collections and cultural heritage
Thomas Ross Miller
Object lessons: Collecting wooden spirits and wax
voices
as Cultural Property 171 PDF
Julia A. Kupina
Heritage and/or property: The ethnographic
collections in Russian
museums 203 PDF
Sonja Lührmann
Beyond repatriation: Collaborations between museums
and Alaska native
communities 217
PDF
The politics of culture in ethnonational discourses
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
Whose homeland is it? Shifting boundaries and
multiple identities
in the Russian Federation North 233 PDF
Tatiana Argounova-Low
Diamonds: Contested symbol in the Republic of Sakha
(Yakutia) 257
PDF
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Traditionalism and neoliberalism: The Norwegian folk
dress in the 21st
century 267 PDF
Epilogue
Chris Hann
The cartography of copyright cultures versus the
proliferation
of public properties 289 PDF
Notes on the contributors 305
Index 309