By Haidy Geismar

ISBN-10: 0822354128

ISBN-13: 9780822354123

ISBN-10: 0822354276

ISBN-13: 9780822354277

What occurs whilst ritual practitioners from a small Pacific state make an highbrow estate declare to bungee leaping? while a German corporation effectively sues to shield its trademark of a Māori identify? Or whilst UNESCO deems ephemeral sand drawings to be "intangible cultural heritage"? In Treasured Possessions, Haidy Geismar examines how international kinds of cultural and highbrow estate are being redefined by way of daily humans and policymakers in markedly various Pacific international locations. the recent Hebrides, a small archipelago in Melanesia controlled together via Britain and France till 1980, is now the self sufficient countryside of Vanuatu, with a inhabitants that's greater than ninety five percentage indigenous. New Zealand, in contrast, is a settler nation and previous British colony that engages with its entangled Polynesian and British history via an ethos of "biculturalism" that's intended to contain an indigenous inhabitants of simply 15 percentage. replacement notions of estate, assets, and heritage—informed by means of particular nationwide histories—are rising in either nations. those estate claims are complex in nationwide and foreign settings, yet they emanate from particular groups and cultural landscapes, and they're grounded in an knowledge of ancestral strength and inheritance. They display highbrow and cultural estate to be not just criminal constructs but additionally robust methods of exclaiming indigenous identities and sovereignties.

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