Borrowed power : essays on cultural appropiation / edited by Bruce Ziff and Pratima V. Rao.

Contributor(s): Ziff, Bruce H [editor] | Rao, Pratima V, 1962- [editor]
Language: English Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, c1997Description: x, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0813523710 (cloth : alk. paper); 0813523729 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Anthropology -- Philosophy | Culture -- Philosophy | Intellectual property | Cultural property -- Protection | Appropriation (Art) | Power (Social sciences)DDC classification: 306.01 LOC classification: GN33 | .B66 1997
Contents:
Introduction to cultural appropriation: a framework for analysis / Bruce Ziff and Pratima V. Rao -- pt. 1. The appropriation of music and musical forms: African-American music: dynamics of appropriation and innovation / Perry A. Hall -- Ethnomusicology and music law / Anthony Seeger -- pt. 2. Appropriation in art and narrative: Stop stealing native stories / Lenore Keeshig-Tobias -- The properties of culture and the possession of identity: postcolonial struggle and the legal imagination / Rosemary J. Coombe -- The disappearing debate; or, How the discussion of racism has been taken over by the censorship issue / M. Nourbese Philip -- Re-appropriating cultural appropriation / Kwame Dawes -- In the red / Joane Cardinal-Schubert -- pt. 3. Appropriation in colonial and postcolonial discourse: Translating and resisting empire: cultural appropriation and postcolonial studies / Jonathan Hart -- Nahua colonial discourse and the appropriation of the (European) order / J. Jorge Klor de Alva -- pt. 4. Appropriation in popular culture: Memory and misrepresentation: representing Crazy Horse in tribal court / Nell Jessup Newton -- "White Indians": appropriation and the politics of display / Deborah Root -- pt. 5. The appropriation of scientific knowledge: Native American intellectual property rights: issues in the control of esoteric knowledge / James D. Nason -- Of seeds and shamans: the appropriation of the scientific and technical knowledge of indigenous and local communities / Naomi Roht-Arriaza -- pt. 6. Appropriation and tangible cultural property: Beyond repatriation: cultural policy and practice for the twenty-first century / James D. Nason -- A coming together: the Norton Allen Collection, the Tohono O'odham Nation, and the Arizona State Museum / Lynn S. Teague, Joseph T. Joaquin, and Hartman H. Lomawaima -- Cultural appropriation: a selected bibliography / Pratima V. Rao.
Summary: "An informative and insightful collection of essays on cultural appropriation, focusing on America's appropriation and use of Native American culture specifically. The topics in this book covers topics from the arts, land, and artifacts to ideas, knowledge, and symbols."--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-324)

Introduction to cultural appropriation: a framework for analysis / Bruce Ziff and Pratima V. Rao --
pt. 1. The appropriation of music and musical forms: African-American music: dynamics of appropriation and innovation / Perry A. Hall --
Ethnomusicology and music law / Anthony Seeger --
pt. 2. Appropriation in art and narrative: Stop stealing native stories / Lenore Keeshig-Tobias --
The properties of culture and the possession of identity: postcolonial struggle and the legal imagination / Rosemary J. Coombe --
The disappearing debate; or, How the discussion of racism has been taken over by the censorship issue / M. Nourbese Philip --
Re-appropriating cultural appropriation / Kwame Dawes --
In the red / Joane Cardinal-Schubert --
pt. 3. Appropriation in colonial and postcolonial discourse: Translating and resisting empire: cultural appropriation and postcolonial studies / Jonathan Hart --
Nahua colonial discourse and the appropriation of the (European) order / J. Jorge Klor de Alva --
pt. 4. Appropriation in popular culture: Memory and misrepresentation: representing Crazy Horse in tribal court / Nell Jessup Newton --
"White Indians": appropriation and the politics of display / Deborah Root --
pt. 5. The appropriation of scientific knowledge: Native American intellectual property rights: issues in the control of esoteric knowledge / James D. Nason --
Of seeds and shamans: the appropriation of the scientific and technical knowledge of indigenous and local communities / Naomi Roht-Arriaza --
pt. 6. Appropriation and tangible cultural property: Beyond repatriation: cultural policy and practice for the twenty-first century / James D. Nason --
A coming together: the Norton Allen Collection, the Tohono O'odham Nation, and the Arizona State Museum / Lynn S. Teague, Joseph T. Joaquin, and Hartman H. Lomawaima --
Cultural appropriation: a selected bibliography / Pratima V. Rao.

"An informative and insightful collection of essays on cultural appropriation, focusing on America's appropriation and use of Native American culture specifically. The topics in this book covers topics from the arts, land, and artifacts to ideas, knowledge, and symbols."--Publisher's description.

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