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Properties of Culture - Culture As Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-soviet Siberia - Couverture souple

 
9783496027683: Properties of Culture - Culture As Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-soviet Siberia
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3496027681 ISBN 13 : 9783496027683
Editeur : Dietrich Reimer, 2009

Synopsis

Which role does knowledge play for the identity of a people? The example of indigenous groups in the circumpolar North illustrates how symbols are seen as an exclusive heritage of a community and thus, how culture is understood as a set of tangible and intangible properties and becomes itself a property. Indigenous groups are reshaping and claiming possession of symbols, not only in the Russian North and other circumpolar regions but worldwide. In addition to material objects and practices, knowledge itself is increasingly claimed as the exclusive heritage of a specific group, whose members then assert privileges on this basis. The commodification of culture as a form of property is a product of complex processes of identity construction. Native groups in the circumpolar North, although sharing similar natural environments, have experienced very different political histories. This book explores the consequences of this variation for the ways in which culture is nowadays celebrated, but also manipulated and reified. The main focus is on Siberia, but the studies will also be of interest to all those following the theoretical and practical debates concerning three key concepts of contemporary anthropology: culture, property and indigeneity.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Erich Kasten is currently UNESCO expert on Indigenous Knowledge in the Russian North; extensive field research in the Canadian Pacific Northwest and, since 1993, in Kamchatka; author of a number of monographs and co-editor of the series Ethnographic Library on CD.

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Éditeur
Dietrich Reimer
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3496027681
ISBN 13 
9783496027683
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
330
Éditeur
Kasten Erich
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Personne responsable
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