Cultural Property

3 ch (3C/WEB) (W) · Undergraduate

Understand anthropological and sociolegal frameworks for the ownership and control of tangible and intangible entities such as objects of material culture, geographic indications, folklore, and craft styles. Investigate the history of cultural property from repatriation/rematriation to the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Compare and contrast global frameworks for the ownership of properties by national states, and subnational, local, and Indigenous efforts to decolonize ownership of land, resources, and cultural objects.