Boateng, Boatema.

The copyright thing doesn't work here : Adinkra and Kente cloth and intellectual property in Ghana / Boatema Boateng. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011. - 216 p., [8] plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 23 cm. - First peoples: new directions in indigenous studies . - First peoples (2010) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210) and index.

Introduction : indexes of culture and power -- The tongue does not rot : authorship, ancestors, and cloth -- The women don't know anything! gender, cloth production, and appropriation -- Your face doesn't go anywhere : cultural production and legal subjectivity -- We run a single country : the politics of appropriation -- This work cannot be rushed : global flows, global regulation -- Conclusion : why should the copyright thing work here?

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Propiedad intelectual
Derechos de autor.
Derecho de propiedad intelectual.
Intellectual property.
Copyright--Textile fabrics.
Adinkra cloth--Law and legislation--Ghana.
Kente cloth--Law and legislation--Ghana.
Textile fabrics--Law and legislation--Ghana.
Textile design--Law and legislation--Ghana.
Copyright--Textile fabrics--Ghana.
Intellectual property--Ghana.

K 1401 / B662c 2011

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