Jane Anderson - The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry. The global range of authors use international case studies to encourage a comparative understanding of how cultural property has emerged in different parts of the world and continues to frame vital issues of national sovereignty, the free market, international law, and cultural heritage. Sections explore how cultural property is scaled to the state and the market; cultural property as law; cultural property and cultural rights; and emerging forms of cultural property, from yoga to the national archive. By bringing together disciplinary perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, law, Indigenous studies, history, folklore studies, and policy, this volume facilitates fresh debate and broadens our understanding of this issue of growing importance. This comprehensive and coherent statement of cultural property issues will be of great interest to cultural sector professionals and policy makers, as well as students and academic researchers engaged with cultural property in a variety of disciplines.

Jane Anderson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at New York University. Her research is focused on property law, Indigenous rights and sovereignty, colonial archives, repatriation, digital return, collaborative research, and transformative practice for social change.

Haidy Geismar is Reader in Anthropology and Vice Dean for Strategic Projects at University College London where she co-directs the Digital Anthropology Program. Her research interests focus on digital collections, Indigenous intellectual and cultural property, critical museum studies, the anthropology of economy and exchange, material culture and materiality, and digital anthropology.

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO CULTURAL PROPERTY

Edited by

Jane Anderson and Haidy Geismar

First published 2017

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Names: Anderson, Jane L., editor. | Geismar, Haidy, editor.

Title: The Routledge companion to cultural property / edited by Jane Anderson and Haidy Geismar.

Other titles: Cultural property

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016039420 | ISBN 9781138812642 (hardback : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Cultural property.

Classification: LCC CC135 .R68 2017 | DDC 363.6/9--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016039420

ISBN: 978-1-138-81264-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-64103-4 (ebk)

Thanks to Ryan OByrne, Anna Weinrich and Matt Canfield for editorial assistance in the last phases of production, to Matthew Gibbons for the invitation to put the volume together and Lola Harre for support and editorial assistance during the books production. Special thanks to Andrea Geyer. Thanks to the Departments of Anthropology at University College London and New York University for supporting both editors during the time it took to put the book together.

The editors will donate all royalties from the sale of this book to the International Repatriation Project, Association of American Indian Affairs, www.indian-affairs.org.

Jane Anderson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at New York University. Her work is focused on the philosophical and practical problems of intellectual property law, repatriation and Indigenous rights. She works with a variety of Native American communities negotiating control and ownership over tribal knowledge resources and cultural heritage held within archives and museums. Her most recent project, with Kim Christen, is Local Contexts (www.localcontexts.org). This project includes the new Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels as an educational intervention to address the needs of Indigenous communities to manage their intellectual property rights and cultural heritage specifically within the digital environment.

Regina F. Bendix has taught at the Department of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at the University of Gttingen, Germany since 2001. The conceptual and historical work she carried out for her monograph In Search of Authenticity (Madison 1997) fostered her interest in questions at the intersection of culture, the economy and politics. She worked on tourism and heritage and led the multi-year, interdisciplinary research group on The Constitution of Cultural Property, in whose framework a number of co-edited volumes such as Heritage Regimes and the State (Gttingen 2013) and Between Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice (Gttingen 2015) have appeared.

Susan Benton holds a Juris Doctor degree in law and a PhD in anthropology. Susan has been active in private law practice in the United States since 1987 with a focus on issues affecting the cultural and creative sectors. For more than a decade, she has focused her research on issues involving indigenous cultural heritage, arts, and the law, including the processes of repatriation and their effects on groups and individuals. For more than 20 years, Susan has also taught courses at the doctoral and masters levels on issues involving cultural heritage law, museum law, and the international arts and antiquities trade. Currently residing in Melbourne, Australia, Susan is active internationally with research, law practice, teaching, and speaking engagements.

Boatema Boateng is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of California San Diego. Her research interests include critical legal studies, cultural studies, transnational gender studies, and African diaspora studies. She has published several articles and book chapters on the political and cultural dimensions of intellectual property law and her book The Copyright Thing Doesnt Work Here: Adinkra, Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2011.