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Book Review
| Who Owns Native Culture? By Michael F. Brown. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xvi, 315 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-01171-6.)
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| Michael F. Brown's superb survey of how indigenous property rights have evolved during the twentieth century offers a balanced consideration of emotional and contentious issues that will no doubt dominate the discourse of cultural heritage protection well into the twenty-first century. Brown, the Lambert Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Williams College, traveled widely to explore the ways in which Native peoples in Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and the United States have asserted a legal and moral claim to cultural images, traditional knowledge (including botanical), and sacred spaces. |
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