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The Copyright Thing Doesn't Work Here: Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana(First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)

The Copyright Thing Doesn't Work Here: Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana(First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)


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In Ghana, adinkra and kente textiles derive their significance from their association with both Asante and Ghanaian cultural nationalism. Adinkra, made by stenciling patterns with black dye, and kente, a type of strip weaving, each convey the bearer's identity, social status, and even emotional state. Yet both textiles have been widely mass-produced outside Ghana without any compensation to the originators of the designs. In The Copyright Thing Doesn't Work Here, Boatema Boateng focuses on the appropriation and protection of adinkra and kente cloth in order to examine the broader implications of the use of intellectual property law to preserve folklore and other traditional forms of knowledge.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Indexes of Culture and Power 1. The Tongue Does Not Rot: Authorship, Ancestors, and Cloth 2. The Women Don't Know Anything! Gender, Cloth Production, and Appropriation 3. Your Face Doesn't Go Anywhere: Cultural Production and Legal Subjectivity 4. We Run a Single Country: The Politics of Appropriation 5. This Work Cannot Be Rushed: Global Flows, Global Regulation Conclusion: Why Should the Copyright Thing Work Here? Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Boatema Boateng is associate professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego.

Review :
"Boatema Boateng’s use of life histories to humanize discussions of law, policy, and the exigencies of modernity is as refreshing as the wide analytical net she casts to include the North American African diaspora and reflect upon key concerns such as cultural nationalism on both sides of the Atlantic." -Kwasi Konadu, City University of New York "This fine-grained historical and ethnographic inquiry into the social life of Ghanaian textiles is–quite simply and by several degrees of magnitude–the best study anywhere of how Western tropes of intellectual property fail to grasp the complexity of systems in which the traditional arts are practiced today. It tells a cautionary tale with urgent implications for IP scholarship, and it should be required reading for policy-makers in world capitals and at international organizations." -Peter Jaszi, American University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780816670031
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 081667003X
  • Publisher Date: 16 Mar 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
  • Sub Title: Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana


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