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Who Owns Culture? : Appropriation And Authenticity In American Law

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Susan ScafidiPublication Details
BookRutgers University Press2005Links
Description
From indigenous art to Linux, Susan Scafidi takes the reader on a tour of the no-man?s-land between law and culture, pausing to ask: What prompts us to offer legal protection to works of literature, but not folklore? Providing new insights to communal authorship, cultural appropriation, intellectual property law, and the formation of American culture, this innovative and accessible guide greatly enriches future legal understanding of cultural production. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) KF2979 .S28 2005 AVAILABLE
Who Owns The Past? : Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, And The Law

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Kate Fitz Gibbon, editorPublication Details
BookRutgers University Press2005Links
Description
Public and private institutions in the United States have long been home to a variety of art works, antiquities, and ethnological materials. In clear, nontechnical language, they provide a comprehensive overview of the development of cultural property law and practices, as well as recent case law affecting the ability of museums and private collectors to own art from other countries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) AM221 .W48 2005 AVAILABLE
The Archaeology Of Race And Racialization In Historic America

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Charles E. Orser, Jr. ; foreword by Michael S. NassaneyPublication Details
BookUniversity Press of Florida2007Links
Description
With the advent of this book, the ability of archaeologists to contribute to the study of race no longer can be doubted. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E159.5 .O77 2007 AVAILABLE
Spirited Encounters : American Indians Protest Museum Policies And Practices

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Karen Coody CooperPublication Details
BookAltaMira Press2008Description
During the twentieth century, American Indians across North America organized protests against traditional museum treatment of Native materials and the Native community. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E76.85 .C66 2008 AVAILABLE
The Refinement Of America : Persons, Houses, Cities

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Richard L. BushmanPublication Details
Book1st Vintage Books edVintage Books1993Links
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This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E162 .B986 1993 AVAILABLE
What’s The Use Of Art? : Asian Visual And Material Culture In Context

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Jan Mrázek and Morgan Pitelka, editorsPublication Details
BookUniversity of Hawaii Press2008Description
This series of case studies from Asia helps broaden and decolonize our understanding of what art is and assert the need to go beyond established ways of thinking about art in English-language scholarship. An engaging and wide-ranging collection, What’s the Use of Art will appeal not only to Asia art historians, historians, and anthropologists, but also to collectors and readers with an interest in museum studies and material culture studies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NK1037 .W43 2008 AVAILABLE
Uses Of Heritage

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Laurajane SmithPublication Details
BookRoutledge2006Links
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She demonstrates forcefully that heritage value is not inherent in physical objects or places, rather these objects and places are used to give tangibility to the values that underpin different communities, and then to assert and affirm these values for a range of reasons. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) CC135 .S59 2006 AVAILABLE
Indian Arts Of The Southwest

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Susanne and Jake PagePublication Details
BookRio Nuevo Publishers2008Links
Description
Indian Arts of the Southwest features photographs of the basketry, pottery, weaving, jewelry, and carvings of more than 200 noted artisans, and it also contains essential information and cultural history for more than 30 tribes, including the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, and Pueblo peoples. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E78.S7 P34 2008 AVAILABLE
Words Of The Huron

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John L. SteckleyPublication Details
BookWilfrid Laurier University Press2007Description
Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century. Steckley’s source material includes the first dictionary of any Aboriginal language, Recollect Brother Gabriel Sagard’s Huron phrasebook, published in 1632, and the sophisticated Jesuit missionary study of the language from the 1620s to the 1740s, beginning with the work of Father Jean de Br (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PM1366 .S74 2007 AVAILABLE
Memory And Vision : Arts, Cultures, And Lives Of Plains Indian Peoples

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Emma I. Hansen ; with contributions by Beatrice Medicine … [et al.]Publication Details
BookBuffalo Bill Historical Center2007Description
The story of the Native peoples of the Great Plains is a cornerstone in the history and heritage of the American West. Hansen and distinguished members of the Plains Indian community weave the history of Native peoples together with an insightful view of contemporary Native life, presenting the glory, endurance, and renewal of the life ways of Plains peoples. The contributors trace the story of the Plains peoples through adversity — European settlement, disease, warfare, loss of homelands, the decimation of the buffalo, the powerful influence of missionaries and government agents, and, finally, settlement on reservations — to the renewal of their cultures in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E78.G73 H346 2007 AVAILABLE
Indian Baskets Of Central California : Art, Culture, And History : Native American Basketry From San Francisco Bay And Monterey Bay North To Mendocino And East To The Sierras

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Ralph Shanks ; Lisa Woo Shanks, editorPublication Details
Book1st edCostaño Books2006Description
This unique book provides a complete study of the exquisite Native American basketry from the San Francisco Bay Area and the Monterey Bay region north to Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino and eastward across the Sacramento Valley to the crest of the Sierras. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) E98.B3 S43 2006 AVAILABLE
Cross-cultural Collaboration : Native Peoples And Archaeology In The Northeastern United States

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edited by Jordan E. Kerber ; with a foreword by Joe WatkinsPublication Details
BookUniversity of Nebraska Press2006Links
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Cross-Cultural Collaboration is an anthology of essays on Native American involvement in archaeology in the northeastern United States and on the changing relationship between archaeologists and tribes in the region. The contributors examine the process and the details of collaborative case studies, ranging from consultation in compliance with federal, state, and local legislation and regulations (including the National Historic Preservation Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) to voluntary cooperation involving education, research, and museum-related projects. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E78.E2 C76 2006 AVAILABLE
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