Ownership and Appropriation (ASA Monographs) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847886841 ISBN 13: 9781847886842

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

In a world of finite resources, expanding populations and widening structural inequalities, the ownership of things is increasingly contested. Not only are the commons being rapidly enclosed and privatized, but the very idea of what can be owned is expanding, generating conflicts over the ownership of resources, ideas, culture, people, and even parts of people. Understanding processes of ownership and appropriation is not only central to anthropological theorizing but also has major practical applications, for policy, legislative development and conflict resolution.Ownership and Appropriation significantly extends anthropology's long-term concern with property by focusing on everyday notions and acts of owning and appropriating. The chapters document the relationship between ownership, subjectivities and personhood; they demonstrate the critical consequences of materiality and immateriality on what is owned; and they examine the social relations of property. By approaching ownership as social communication and negotiation, the text points to a more dynamic and processual understanding of property, ownership and appropriation.

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About the Author

Veronica Strang is Executive Director at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, and the author of What Anthropologists Do (2009).Mark Busse is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Auckland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847886841
• ISBN 13: 9781847886842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Strang Veronica, Busse Mark