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Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2005

Patrick J. O'Keefe
Patrick J. O'Keefe
Affiliation:
Graduate Studies in Sustainable Heritage Development, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. Email: ockiff@bigpond.com
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Michael F. Brown, Who Owns Native Culture?. Pp. xiii+315. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, London, 2003. ISBN 0-674-01171-6.

Michael Brown has written a book that must be read by all who have a serious concern with heritage, particularly that where the interests of “native” peoples are involved. Throughout the book, there is evidence of extensive research and careful analysis of the often complex issues that he raises. But it is not a dry tome. A sense of humor appears. Describing the ethnobotanist Richard Schultes, of Harvard University, Brown says: “He may have been the only Republican in America who freely admitted to having sampled just about every mind-altering plant yet discovered in the New World” (p. 96). The book is written in a clear style with no use of jargon.

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BOOK REVIEW
Information
International Journal of Cultural Property , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 114 - 117
Copyright
© 2005 International Cultural Property Society

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