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
Director, Francis C. Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences
A.B. Princeton
Ph. D. University of Michigan
MAJOR INTERESTS
- Ritual and religion
- Native peoples of North & South America, esp. Amazon
- Medical anthropology
- Human ecology
- Intellectual and cultural property
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- List of major publications, including downloadable offprints
- Who Owns Native Culture? Harvard University Press, 2003.
- "Heritage as property." In Property in Question: Value Transformation in the Global Economy. Katherine Verdery and Caroline Humphrey, eds., Berg, 2004.
- "Heritage Trouble: Recent Work on the Protection of Intangible Cultural Property." International Journal of Cultural Property 12: 40-61 (PDF).
- "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).
Office phone: (413) 597-2556
