1st Edition
Property in Question Value Transformation in the Global Economy
320 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata become objects and therefore propertized, and what are the social, economic, and ethical considerations... Read more
Acknowledgments, List of Contributors, Introduction: Raising Questions about Property, Part I: The “Things” of Property, 1. Bodily Transactions: Regulating a New Space of Flows in “Bio-information”, 2. Heritage as Property, 3. The Selective Protection of Musical Ideas: The “Creators” and the Dispossessed, 4. Crude Properties: The Sublime and Slime of Oil Operations in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Part II: Property, Value, and Liability 5 Prospecting’s Publics, 6. The Obligations of Ownership: Restoring Rights to Land in Postsocialist Transylvania, 7. Proprietary Regimes and Sociotechnical Systems: Rights over Land in Mongolia’s “Age of the Market”, Part III: Cultural Recognition, 8. At Home in the Violence of Recognition, 9. Cultural Rights and Wrongs: Uses of the Concept of Property, 10. The Menace of Hawkers: Property Forms and the Politics of Market Liberalization in Mumbai, Part IV: Critiquing Property, 11. Value, Relations, and Changing Bodies: Privatization and Property Rights in Kazakhstan, 12. Economic Claims and the Challenges of New Property, 13. Cyberspatial Properties: Taxing Questions about Proprietary Regimes, Index
Biography
Katherine Verdery Eric R. Wolf Professor of Anthropology and Interim Chair,University of Michigan Caroline Humphrey Professor of Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge
