Copyright heritage: Preservation, carnival and the state in Trinidad

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 453-484

  Scher, Philip W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnival; Copyright; Gender; Heritage; Intellectual property; Nationalism; Trinidad

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036623086     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2002.0054     Document Type: Review

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