Claiming the Stones Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity (Issues & Debates)

About this book

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.