Who Owns the Past? Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law

Co-editing by Kate Fitz Gibbon Rutgers University Publishing Bureau and the American Cultural Properties Committee

Mr. Susan Sukafidi, a law professor at Fordham University, defines a book called "Who owns culture? Grant and credibility in American law". Traditional knowledge, cultural expression, artifacts Culture of others can not be tolerated. This may include misuse of other cultures, such as dance, clothing, music, language, folklore, food, traditional medicine, religious symbols. However, we are novelists who ask "allow" to use characters of other races and cultures, or to permit the use of words that they do not belong to. Approach a passerby using the clipboard and get a signature In chapter 12, does the political applicant have the right to use Indonesian in a way to collect candidates on the ballot?

Grants are defined as the management or ownership of assets for their own use, including intellectual property. Cultural possession, more precisely "cultural expropriation" means to borrow mainstream culture by utilizing or using the characteristics of minority cultures and intellectual property. Theft is to be illegitimate for your own use. What is robbed is to own something quickly and forcibly. Most importantly, when something is occupied by dominant culture, it is done without reciprocity or permission.

According to a certain degree of understanding about cultural properties, the close relationship between cultural properties and cultural identity makes this property inseparable. Sometimes it is close to what is called "cultural heritage" and such property may be expressed as "what people are not part of, but part of their collective identity" (Cuno 2001: 85). . This is, for example, a type of item under the Protective Return of the Native American Cemetery in 1990 and is aimed at promoting the return of indigenous people's wills and relics from federal funded institutions to indigenous peoples (Coleman 2010); Lackey 2006; Trope & Echo - Hawk 1992; Harjo 1996) If the cultural property can not be divided, ownership of cultural properties by people other than cultural groups is actually illegal.