Ownership and appropriation /

Ownership and appropriation /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	English ed.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Berg Publishers, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 299 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	A.S.A. monographs, 0066-9679 A.S.A. monographs.
Subject:	Material culture. Property. Cultural property. Cultural property. Material culture. Property.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11280417

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Other authors / contributors:	Strang, Veronica. Busse, Mark.
ISBN:	9781847888402 1847888402 9781847888419 1847888410 9781474214216 1474214215 1283244616 9781283244619 9786613244611 6613244619 1847886841 184788685X 9781847886859 9781847886842
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"In a world of finite resources, expanding populations, and widening structural inequalities, the ownership of things is increasingly contested. Not only are the commons being rapidly enclosed and privatised, but the very idea of what can be owned is expanding, generating conflicts over the ownership of resources, ideas, culture, people, and even parts of people. Understanding processes of ownership and appropriation is not only central to anthropological theorising but also has major practical applications, for policy, legislative development and conflict resolution. Ownership and Appropriation significantly extends anthropologys long-term concern with property by focusing on everyday notions and acts of owning and appropriating. The chapters document the relationship between ownership, subjectivities and personhood; they demonstrate the critical consequences of materiality and immateriality on what is owned; and they examine the social relations of property. By approaching ownership as social communication and negotiation the text points to a more dynamic and processual understanding of property, ownership and appropriation"--
Other form:	Print version: Ownership and appropriation. English ed. Oxford ; New York : Berg Publishers, 2011
Standard no.:	10.5040/9781474214216 9786613244611

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. Subjects, personhood and peoplehood
pt. 2. Materiality and immateriality
pt. 3. Ownership as social communication.