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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

  • 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).
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