Claiming the stones/naming the bones : cultural property and the negotiation of national and ethnic identity

Barkan, Elazar. (Added Author). Bush, Ronald. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0892366737 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780892366736 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: ix, 371 p. : ill ; 26 cm.
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Publisher: Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, c2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Amending historical injustices: the restitution of cultural property / Elazar Barkan -- Appropriating the stones: the "Elgin Marbles" and English national taste / Timothy Webb -- Latin America, Native America, and the politics of culture / Clemency Coggins -- Objects and identities: claiming and reclaiming the past / Claire L. Lyons -- Kennewick Man - a kin? Too distant / Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz -- Cultural significance and the Kennewick skeleton: some thoughts on the resolution of cultural heritage disputes / Patty Gerstenblith -- Selling grandma: commodification of the sacred through intellectual property rights / Darrell Addison Posey -- Stones resung: ethnomusicology and cultural property / Hélène La Rue -- More than skin deep: ta moko today / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- New Negro displayed: self-ownership, proprietary sites/sights, and the bonds/bounds of race / Marlon B. Ross -- Birth of whose nation? the competing claims of national and ethnic identity and the 'banning' of Huckleberry Finn / Johnathan Arac -- Yeats, group claims, and Irishry / R.F. Foster -- Cutlural property and identity politics in Britain / Robert J.C. Young -- Property, schmoperty! Philip Roth, postmodernism and the contradictions of cultural property / Ronald Bush.