{"product_id":"transactions-and-creations-property-debates-and-the-stimulus-of-melanesia-9781845450281","title":"Transactions and Creations: Property Debates and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent conomic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, wish to open up the vocabulary. In this unique volume, they bring an unexpected comparative perspective to global debates on intellectual and cultural property rights (IPR and CPR). The contributors bring from Melanesia their collective experience of people initiating, limiting and rationalizing claims through transactions in ways that challenge many of the assumptions behind the international language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIn a bold theoretical move, “property” is put alongside two other terms: “transactions” and “creations.” The former have a place in the anthropological tradition that now needs to be brought into the foreground. In turn, increasing interest in protecting intellectual and cultural resources means that questions about creativity have suddenly become pertinent to what is or is not being transacted. Yet is creativity a special preoccupation of modernity? How are we to talk about people’s creative practices, when innovation becomes the basis for ownership claims? This book is full of surprises!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“…an intellectual coup certain to reorient thinking about the meaning of property and control of cultural production…Together there essays successfully subvert received categories…In this [they] succeed splendidly.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  PoLAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMarilyn Strathern\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEric Hirsch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: PROPERTY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Property Limits: Debates on the Body, Nature and Culture\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eStuart Kirsch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Legal Options for the Regulation of Intellectual and Cultural Property in Papua New Guinea\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eLawrence Kalinoe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Seeing, Knowing, Owning: Property Claims as Revelatory Acts\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMelissa Demian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: TRANSACTIONS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Transactions: an Analytical Foray\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMarilyn Strathern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Transactions in Perpetual Motion\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eTony Crook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Negotiating Interests in Culture\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKaren Sykes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: CREATIONS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Modes of Creativity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJames Leach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Boundaries of Creation: the Work of Credibility in Science and Ceremony\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eEric Hirsch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042961621335,"sku":"9781845450281","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845450281.jpg?v=1750956414","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transactions-and-creations-property-debates-and-the-stimulus-of-melanesia-9781845450281","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}