Claiming the Stones - Naming the Bones : Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity

by Elazar Barkan; Ronald Bush

• ISBN13: 9780892366736
• ISBN10: 0892366737
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

These fourteen essays address controversies over a variety of cultural properties, exploring them from perspectives of law, archeology, physical anthropology, ethnobiology, ethnomusicology, history, and cultural and literary study. The book divides cultural property into three types: Tangible, unique property like the Parthenon marbles; intangible property such as folktales, music, and folk remedies; and communal "representations," which have lead groups to censor both outsiders and insiders as cultural traitors.

Author Biography

Elazar Barkan is chair of the Cultural Studies Department and professor of history and cultural studies at Claremont Graduate University, California. Ronald Bush is Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(15)
Elazar Barkan
Ronald Bush
Amending Historical Injustices: The Restitution of Cultural Property---An Overview	16	(35)
Elazar Barkan
Part I. Nationalizing Identity
Appropriating the Stones: The ``Elgin Marbles'' and English National Taste	51	(46)
Timothy Webb
Latin America, Native America, and the Politics of Culture	97	(19)
Clemency Coggins
Objects and Identities: Claiming and Reclaiming the Past	116	(25)
Claire L. Lyons
Part II. Codifying Birthrights
Kennewick Man---A Kin? Too Distant	141	(21)
Douglas W. Owsley
Richard L. Jantz
Cultural Significance and the Kennewick Skeleton: Some Thoughts on the Resolution of Cultural Heritage Disputes	162	(39)
Patty Gerstenblith
Part III. Legislating the Intangible
Selling Grandma: Commodification of the Sacred through Intellectual Property Rights	201	(23)
Darrell Addison Posey
The Stones Resung: Ethnomusicology and Cultural Property	224	(19)
Helene La Rue
More than Skin Deep: Ta Moko Today	243	(16)
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Part IV. Righting Representations
The New Negro Displayed: Self-Ownership, Proprietary Sites/Sights, and the Bonds/Bounds of Race	259	(43)
Marlon B. Ross
The Birth of Whose Nation? the Competing Claims of National and Ethnic Identity and the ``Banning'' of Huckleberry Finn	302	(13)
Jonathan Arac
Yeats, Group Claims, and Irishry	315	(14)
R. F. Foster
Cultural Property and Identity Politics in Britain	329	(10)
Robert J. C. Young
Property, Schmoperty! Philip Roth, Postmodernism, and the Contradictions of Cultural Property	339	(14)
Ronald Bush
Biographical Notes on the Contributors	353	(3)
Illustration Credits	356	(2)
Index	358