Research Catalog

Title

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, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barkan, Elazar.
• Bush, Ronald.
• Getty Research Institute
• St. John's College (University of Oxford)

Description

ix, 371 p. : ill., ports.; 27 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Issues & debates

Uniform Title

Issues & debates.

Alternative Title

• Cultural property and the negotiation of national and ethnic identity
• Naming the bones

Subject

• Cultural property
• Cultural property > Congresses
• Cultural property > Repatriation
• Cultural property > Repatriation > Congresses
• Ethnicity
• Ethnicity > Congresses
• Group identity
• Group identity > Congresses
• Intellectual property > Congresses
• Intellectual property > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses
• Intellectual property > Moral and ethical aspects
• Intellectual property

Note

• "This volume ... evolved from ... a symposium cosponsored by the Drue Heinz Center for American Literature of Oxford University and the Getty Research Institute and held at Saint John's College, Oxford, 19-21 April 1998" -- T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Amending historical injustices : the restitution of cultural property, an overview / 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 -- The stones resung : ethnomusicology and cultural property / Hélène La Rue -- More than skin deep : Ta Moko today/ Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- The new negro displayed : self-ownership, proprietary sites/sights, and the bonds/bounds of race / Marlon B. Ross -- The birth of whose nation? : the competing claims of national and ethnic identity and "banning" of Huckleberry Finn / Jonathan Arac.
• Yeats, group claims, and Irishry / R.F. Foster -- Cultural property and identity politics in Britain / Robert J.C. Young -- Property, schmoperty! : Philip Roth, postmodernism, and the contradictions of cultural property / Ronald Bush.

ISBN

0892366737

LCCN

^^2002009138

OCLC

50006530

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library