Ownership And Appropriation

Author : Veronica Strang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100018157X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ownership and Appropriation written by Veronica Strang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of finite resources, expanding populations and widening structural inequalities, the ownership of things is increasingly contested. Not only are the commons being rapidly enclosed and privatized, but the very idea of what can be owned is expanding, generating conflicts over the ownership of resources, ideas, culture, people, and even parts of people. Understanding processes of ownership and appropriation is not only central to anthropological theorizing but also has major practical applications, for policy, legislative development and conflict resolution.Ownership and Appropriation significantly extends anthropology's long-term concern with property by focusing on everyday notions and acts of owning and appropriating. The chapters document the relationship between ownership, subjectivities and personhood; they demonstrate the critical consequences of materiality and immateriality on what is owned; and they examine the social relations of property. By approaching ownership as social communication and negotiation, the text points to a more dynamic and processual understanding of property, ownership and appropriation.

Author : Kembrew McLeod
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Owning Culture written by Kembrew McLeod and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owning Culture demonstrates how intellectual property law has expanded to allow for private ownership of a remarkable array of things, from the patenting of human genes linked to breast cancer to the trademarking of the phrases «home style» and «freedom of ownership.» This book examines diverse areas of contemporary life affected by intellectual property law, including sampling practices in hip-hop music, the appropriation of Third World indigenous knowledge about the medical uses of plants, the effects of seed patenting on farming, and the impact of copyright law on folk music-making. By placing under scrutiny the individualistic, Western conception of the «author» that grounds intellectual property law, Kembrew McLeod shows how borrowing practices have been - and continue to be - central to cultural production. Additionally, this book highlights how intellectual property law facilitates the privatization of culture and the transfer of power into the hands of wealthy individuals and corporations. Clearly written, thoughtful, and thought provoking, Owning Culture provides an innovative approach to the study of culture and law.

Author : Bruce H. Ziff
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813523729
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Power written by Bruce H. Ziff and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative and insightful collection of essays on cultural appropriation, focusing on America's appropriation and use of Native American culture specifically. The topics in this book covers topics from the arts, land, and artifacts to ideas, knowledge, and symbols.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1220 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interior Department Appropriation Bill, 1933 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior Department Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6K/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interior Department Appropriation Bill, 1933 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior Department Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence C. Becker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317703294
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Property Rights (Routledge Revivals) written by Lawrence C. Becker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations, first published in 1977, comprehensively examines the general justifications for systems of private property rights, and discusses with great clarity the major arguments as to the rights and responsibilities of property ownership. In particular, the arguments that hold that there are natural rights derived from first occupancy, labour, utility, liberty and virtue are considered, as are the standard anti-property arguments based on disutility, virtue and inequality, and the belief that justice in distribution must take precedence over private ownership. Lawrence Becker goes on to contend that there are four sound lines of argument for private property that, together with what is sound in the anti-property arguments, must be co-ordinated to form the foundations of a new theory. He therefore expounds a concise but sophisticated theory of property that is relevant to the modern world, and concludes by indicating some of the implications of his theory.

Author : Rosemary J. Coombe
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822382490
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties written by Rosemary J. Coombe and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logos, trademarks, national insignia, brand names, celebrity images, design patents, and advertising texts are vibrant signs in a consumer culture governed by a regime of intellectual property laws. In The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties, professor of law and cultural anthropologist Rosemary J. Coombe brings an illuminating ethnographic approach to an analysis of authorship and the role law plays in shaping the various meanings that animate these protected properties in the public sphere. Although such artifacts are ubiquitous in contemporary culture, little attention has been paid to the impact of intellectual property law in everyday life or to how ownership of specific intellectual properties is determined and exercised. Drawing on a wide range of cases, disputes, and local struggles, Coombe examines these issues and dismantles the legal assumption that the meaning and value of a text or image is produced exclusively by an individual author or that authorship has a single point of origin. In the process, she examines controversies that include the service of turbanned Sikhs in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the use of the term Olympic in reference to the proposed gay Olympic Games. Other chapters discuss the appropriation of such celebrity images as the Marx brothers, Judy Garland, Dolly Parton, James Dean, and Luke Skywalker; the conflict over team names such as the Washington Redskins; and the opposition of indigenous peoples to stereotypical Native American insignia proffered by the entertainment industry. Ultimately, she makes a case for redefining the political in commodified cultural environments. Significant for its insights into the political significance of current intellectual property law, this book also provides new perspectives on debates in cultural anthropology, cultural studies, and political theory. It will therefore interest both a wide scholarly and a general audience.

Author : C. M. Hann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521596367
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Property Relations written by C. M. Hann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-16 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten diverse ethnographic case studies renew the anthropological perspective on property.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1824 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of Agriculture Appropriation Bill written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1378 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Department Appropriation Bill for 1935 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: