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Applied Anthropology for Undergraduates
Cultural (Copy)Rights
Applied Anthropologists around the world are researching the impact of cultural copyright and advocating for indigenous populations' rights to their intellectual and cultural property. Along with looking at cultural appropriation, anthropologists are also interested in uncovering the effects of contemporary copyright laws on cultural practice and economy.
Below are a number of resources and cases where anthropologists have taken a closer look at the phenomena of copyright's effect and influence on different societies over time.
Our Culture, Our Rights
Books
Who Owns Native Culture? by ISBN: 0674011716Publication Date: 2003-09-29An introduction to questions of cultural ownership, group privacy, intellectual property, and the recovery of indigenous identities.
Articles
- Can Culture be Copyrighted?Brown, Michael. 1998. “Can Culture be Copyrighted?” Current Anthropology 39(2):193-222.
- Copyright in Context: Carvings, Carvers, and Commodities in VanuatuGeismar, Haidy. 2005 "Copyright in Context: Carvings, Carvers, and Commodities in Vanuatu." American Ethnologist 32(3): 437-59.
- 3D Printing: Cultural Property as Intellectual PropertyCronin, Charles. 2015. “3D Printing: Cultural Property as Intellectual Property.” Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 39(1):1-40.
Journals
- International Journal of Cultural PropertyA multidisciplinary forum for the broad spectrum of views surrounding cultural property, cultural heritage, and related issues.
- Journal of World Intellectual PropertyProvides coverage on international and comparative aspects of intellectual property law, including trade, investment, technology, management and enforcement.
Lectures and Discussions
- ‘How Trinkets Became Piracy: Intellectual Property Discourse and its Impacts on Informal Economy in Brazil’Drawing on over 15 years of anthropological fieldwork, Dr Pinheiro-Machado presents her ethnographic findings about the impact of the criminalization of copyright infringement on ordinary street-traders in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil and the Paraguayan border.