On Transactions and Creations

Museum Anthropology contributor and booster Michael F. Brown, whose work on cultural property issues is well known to many in the field, has just published a helpful, detailed review of Transactions and Creations: Property Debates and the Stimulus of Melanesia edited by Eric Hirsch and Marilyn Strathern (in PoLAR). While the collection does not focus specifically on museum-related property issues, Michael's review suggests that it will become an important work in the broader literature on the anthropology of heritage policy and intellectual/cultural property debates. You can find the review in AnthroSource here.