Eric Hirsch

Transactions and Creations: Property Debates and The Stimulus of Melanesia Eric Hirsch

Marc Notes: Bibl. ref. & index.; Based on pre-pub. info. only. Publisher Marketing: British and American anthropologists and a law scholar from Papua New Guinea explore how the concept of cultural property plays within the cultural and intellectual world of the Pacific islands of Melanesia. Among their topics are legal options for regulating intellectual and cultural property in Papua New Guinea, property claims as revelatory acts

Contributor Bio:  Hirsch, Eric Hirsch is Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University. Contributor Bio:  Strathern, Marilyn Marilyn Strathern is William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. She has carried out fieldwork over several years in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Melanesia). She is the author of several works including Kinship at the Core, After Nature and Property, Substance and Effect.