Property in question [electronic resource] : value transformation in the global economy / edited by Katherine Verdery and Caroline Humphrey.

Contributor(s): Series: Wenner-Gren international seriesPublication details: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Berg, 2004.Edition: English edDescription: xi, 324 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 330.1/7 22
LOC classification:
  • HB701 .P738 2004eb
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Contents:
Bodily transactions: regulating a new space of flows in "bio-information" / Bronwyn Parry -- Heritage as property / Michael A. Brown -- The selective protection of musical ideas: the "creators" and the dispossessed / Anthony Seeger -- Crude properties: the sublime and slime of oil operations in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Suzana Sawyer -- Prospecting's publics / Cori Hayden -- The obligations of ownership: restoring rights to land in postsocialist Transylvania / Katherine Verdery -- Proprietary regimes and sociotechnical systems: rights over land in Mongolia's "age of the market" / David Sneath -- At home in the violence of recognition / Elizabeth Povinelli -- Cultural rights and wrongs: uses of the concept of property / Michael Rowlands -- The menace of hawkers: property forms and the politics of market liberalization in Mumbai / Arvind Rajagopal -- Value, relations, and changing bodies: privatization and property rights in Kazakhstan / Catherine Alexander -- Economic claims and the challenges of new property / Carol M. Rose -- Cyberspatial properties: taxing questions about proprietary regimes / Bill Maurer.
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Bodily transactions: regulating a new space of flows in "bio-information" / Bronwyn Parry -- Heritage as property / Michael A. Brown -- The selective protection of musical ideas: the "creators" and the dispossessed / Anthony Seeger -- Crude properties: the sublime and slime of oil operations in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Suzana Sawyer -- Prospecting's publics / Cori Hayden -- The obligations of ownership: restoring rights to land in postsocialist Transylvania / Katherine Verdery -- Proprietary regimes and sociotechnical systems: rights over land in Mongolia's "age of the market" / David Sneath -- At home in the violence of recognition / Elizabeth Povinelli -- Cultural rights and wrongs: uses of the concept of property / Michael Rowlands -- The menace of hawkers: property forms and the politics of market liberalization in Mumbai / Arvind Rajagopal -- Value, relations, and changing bodies: privatization and property rights in Kazakhstan / Catherine Alexander -- Economic claims and the challenges of new property / Carol M. Rose -- Cyberspatial properties: taxing questions about proprietary regimes / Bill Maurer.

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