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Book SynopsisThe Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation.
Trade Review"There are several characteristics that make this collection of essays an admirable endeavour: the breadth of questions and disciplines covered - music, arts, archaeology, genetics, religion, ethnobiology - in an interdisciplinary dialogue moderated by philosophers; the passionate engagement of the authors with the ethics of appropriation of subaltern cultures by dominant Western cultures; the incisiveness of the debates over each theme discussed (one author debating with another before giving his/her own point of view in the shape of an individual article); the soundness of theoretical arguments and the stunning and provocative examples debated." (Journal of the Royal Astronomical Institute, 2011)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix
Preface xii
Artist Statement xvii
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1. Introduction 1
2. Archaeological Finds: Legacies of Appropriation, Modes of Response 11
George P. Nicholas and Alison Wylie
3. The Appropriation of Human Remains: A First Nations Legal and Ethical Perspective 55
James [Sakej] Youngblood Henderson
4. The Repatriation of Human Remains 72
Geoffrey Scarre
5. 'The Skin Off Our Backs': Appropriation of Religion 93
Conrad G. Brunk and James O. Young
6. Genetic Research and Culture: Where Does the Offense Lie? 115
Daryl Pullman and Laura Arbour
7. Appropriation of Traditional Knowledge: Ethics in the Context of Ethnobiology 140
Kelly Bannister and Maui Solomon (Part I) Conrad G. Brunk (Part II)
8. A Broken Record: Subjecting 'Music' to Cultural Rights 173
Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Rosemary J. Coombe with Fiona MacArailt
9. Objects of Appropriation 211
Andrea N. Walsh and Dominic McIver Lopes
10. Do Subaltern Artifacts Belong in Art Museums? 235
A.W. Eaton and Ivan Gaskell
11. 'Nothing Comes from Nowhere': Refl ections on Cultural
Appropriation as the Representation of Other Cultures 268
James O. Young and Susan Haley
Index 290
