Copyright in context: Carvings, carvers, and commodities in Vanuatu

American Ethnologist

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 437-459

  Geismar, Haidy ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambrym; Copyright; Indigenous intellectual property rights; Materiality; Vanuatu

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644517196     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2005.32.3.437     Document Type: Review

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