Michael F. Brown, James N. Lambert '39 Professor of Anthropology & Latin American Studies

Michael F. Brown

Lambert Prof. of Anthropology & Latin American Studies

Director, Francis C. Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences

A.B. Princeton
Ph. D. University of Michigan

MAJOR INTERESTS

List of major publications, including downloadable offprints
"Faut-il breveter les cultures en danger?" Sciences Humaines (Paris), March 2006 (1 Mb PDF file).
"NAGPRA from the Middle Distance: Legal Puzzles and Unintended Consequences." In John Henry Merryman, ed., Art, Imperialism and Restitution, Cambridge University Press, 2006. [Co-authored with Margaret M. Bruchac.]
"Sovereignty's Betrayals." In Indigenous Experience Today, Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn, eds., Berg, 2007 (PDF, 2.4 Mb).
Interview of Michael F. Brown, conducted by Thomas Strong and Jukka Siikala, Suomen Antropologi (Finland, published in English; PDF), 2007.
"The Anthropology of/in Circulation: The Future of Open Access and Scholarly Societies," Cultural Anthropology 23 (2), 2008; co-authored with Christopher Kelty, Michael M.J. Fischer, Alex “Rex” Golub, Jason Baird Jackson, Kimberly Christen, and Tom Boellstorff. (My contribution to this collectively authored essay is limited to a brief walk-on role.) (PDF, 220K).
"Cultural Relativism 2.0," Current Anthropology 49(3), 2008 (PDF, 275K).
"Exhibiting Indigenous Heritage in the Age of Cultural Property." In James Cuno, ed., Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities (Princeton University Press, 2009) (PDF, 1.2Mb).

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