Arts and owners: Intellectual property law and the politics of scale in Indonesian arts

American Ethnologist

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 607-631

  Aragon, Lorraine V ^a   Leach, James ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Art; Cultural property; Globalization; Indonesia; Intellectual property; Law; Tradition

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049180767     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00101.x     Document Type: Article

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