Title & Author:

Claiming the stones/naming the bones : cultural property and the negotiation of national and ethnic identity / edited by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, ©2002.

Description:

ix, 371 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Issues & debates

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Amending historical injustices / Elazar Barkan -- Appropriating the stones / Timothy Webb -- Latin America, Native America, and the politics of culture / Clemency Coggins -- Objects and identities / Claire L. Lyons -- Kennewick Man -- a kin? Too distant / Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz -- Cultural significance and the Kennewick skeleton / Patty Gerstenblith -- Selling grandma / Darrell Addison Posey -- Stones resung / Hélène La Rue -- More than skin deep / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- New Negro displayed / Marlon B. Ross -- Birth of whose nation? / Johnathan Arac -- Yeats, group claims, and Irishry / R.F. Foster -- Cultural property and identity politics in Britain / Robert J.C. Young -- Property, schmoperty! / Ronald Bush.

Summary:

Cultural property such as works of art, monuments, literature, sacred remains and traditional practices can create a profound sense of communal belonging, yet nothing illuminates the ambiguities of group identity more powerfully than conflicting claims to such material. Addresses current controversies: Elgin marbles, Kennewick skeleton.

Resources:
Getty Publications Virtual Library
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents
Online version available via the Getty publications virtual library

ISBN:

0892366737 (alk. paper)
9780892366736 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Cultural property.
Cultural property Repatriation.
Intellectual property.
Intellectual property Moral and ethical aspects.
Group identity.
Ethnicity.
Intellectual Property
Social Identification
Patrimoine culturel.
Patrimoine culturel Restitution.
Propriété intellectuelle.
Propriété intellectuelle Aspect moral.
Identité collective.
Ethnicité.
Patrimoine culturel immatériel.
intellectual property.
group identity.
ethnicity.
cultural property.
intangible cultural heritage.
Cultural heritage - Repatriation.
Cultural heritage - Ownership issues.
Cultural heritage - Protection - Law and legislation.
Cultuurgoed.
Nationale identiteit.
Teruggave.
Bien culturel.
Restitution d'un bien.
Aspect moral.
United States (USA)

Added entries:

Barkan, Elazar.
Bush, Ronald.
Issues & debates.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227546
Call No.: CC135 .C48 2002
Status: Available