Michael F. Brown

MAJOR INTERESTS

• Ritual and religion
• Native peoples of North & South America, esp. Amazon
• Medical anthropology
• Human ecology
• Intellectual and cultural property

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Link to complete list of major publications, including downloadable offprints when available.

• "Faut-il breveter les cultures en danger?" Sciences Humaines (Paris), March 2006 (1 Mb PDF file).
• "NAGPRA from the Middle Distance: Legal Puzzles and Unintended Consequences." In John Henry Merryman, ed., Art, Imperialism and Restitution, Cambridge University Press, 2006. [Co-authored with Margaret M. Bruchac.]
• "Sovereignty's Betrayals." In Indigenous Experience Today, Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn, eds., Berg, 2007 (PDF, 2.4 Mb).
• Interview of Michael F. Brown, conducted by Thomas Strong and Jukka Siikala, Suomen Antropologi (Finland, published in English; PDF), 2007.
• "Cultural Relativism 2.0," Current Anthropology 49(3), 2008. (If you don't have download privileges through your institutional library, please contact author for full-text copy of article.)
• "Exhibiting Indigenous Heritage in the Age of Cultural Property." In James Cuno, ed., Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities (Princeton University Press, 2009) (PDF, 1.2Mb).
• "Relativismo cultural 2.0." En: Textos de la antropología contemporánea, Francisco Cruces Villalobos y Beatriz Pérez Galån, compiladores. Madrid: Univ. Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 2010.
• "'In Defense of Property': An Exchange." International Journal of Cultural Property 17: 569-598. Consists of comment by Michael F. Brown (pp. 569-579) and reply by Kristen A. Carpenter, Sonia K. Katyal, and Angela R. Riley (pp. 581-598). Carpenter, Katyal, and Riley's contribution included with authors' kind permission.
• "A Tale of Three Buildings: Certifying Virtue in the New Moral Economy." American Ethnologist 37(4), 2010. (If you don't have download privileges through your institutional library, please contact author for full-text copy of article.)
• "Антропологического форума". Содержание вы можете найти на сайте журнала: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/05/. English version, "Cultural Property, Control of Meaning, and Paths to Recognition," available here.

Office phone: (413) 597-2556