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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

  • 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
  • "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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