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Society of American Archivists
Pre-Conference Symposium:
Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin, and Intangible Cultural Heritage

Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Recommended Readings

Legislation, Conventions, and Protocols

• Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islanders Library and Information Resources Network Protocols.
  
  
• Library of Congress. Copyright Basics (1 mb PDF 12 pages).
  
  
• Northern Arizona University. Protocols for Native American Archival Materials.
  
  
• United States. Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act - 25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq, Nov. 16, 1990 (17 pp. 190K PDF).
  
  
• UNESCO. Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2003.
  
  
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007.
  
  
• World Intellectual Property Organization, Intergovernmental Committee On Intellectual Property And Genetic Resources. Traditional Cultural Expressions (Folklore). Included from this page is an introduction and a link to Traditional Cultural Expressions/Expressions Of Folklore -- Legal And Policy Options which is a PDF document.

Books and articles (online articles are available for download)

• Barsh, Russell. L. et al., 2001. The North American Pharmaceutical Industry and Research Involving Indigenous Knowledge. Fredericksburg, VA: First Peoples Worldwide.
  
  
• Barwick, Linda, & Thieberger, N., 2006. "Cybraries in Paradise: New Technologies and Ethnographic Repositories." In C. Kapitzke & B. C. Bruce (eds.), Libr@ries: Changing Information Space and Practice (pp. 133-149). Mahwah, NJ.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  
  
• Boyle, James, 1996. Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  
  
• Brascoupé, Simon and Mann H., 2001. A Community Guide to Protecting Indigenous Knowledge. Ottawa: Research & Analysis Directorate, Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
  
  
• Brown, Michael F., 1998."Cultural Records in Question - Information and Its Moral Dilemmas." Cultural Resource Management, Vol. 21, No. 6, 18-20 (278K 4 pp. PDF).
  
  
• Brown, Michael F., 2003. Who Owns Native Culture? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  
  
• Coleman, Elizabeth Burns, 2005. Aboriginal Art, Identity and Appropriation. London: Ashgate.
  
  
• Coombe, Rosemary, 1998. The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  
  
• Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), 2001. Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis. Created by CLIR in connection with the Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis Symposium, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  
  
• Eisenlohr, Patrick, 2004. "Language revitalization and new technologies: Cultures of electronic mediation and the refiguring of communities." Annual Review of Anthropology, 33, 21-45.
  
  
• Gray, Judith, 1994. "The Songs Come Home: The Federal Cylinder Project." Cultural Resource Management, Vol. 14, No. 5 (Note: link downloads entire volume. 161K 50 pp. PDF).
  
  
• Greaves, Tom, ed., 1994. Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous Peoples: A Source Book. Oklahoma City, OK: Society for Applied Anthropology.
  
  Hunter, Jane., B. Koopman, and J. Sledge, 2003. Software Tools for Indigenous Knowledge Management (812K 16 pp. PDF).
  
  
• International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), 2004. Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects (IASA-TC04). Aarhus, Denmark: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives.
  
  
• Jaarsma, Sjoerd R., ed., 2002. Handle with Care: Ownership and Control of Ethnographic Materials. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  
  
• Koch, Grace, 2004. "Challenges to a Small Ethnographic Archive," [Electronic Version]. Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century, 170-182 (94K 13 pp. PDF).
  
  
• Marett, Allan, 2003. "Sound Recordings as Maruy Among the Aborigines of the Daly Region of Northwest Australia." Researchers, Communities, Institutions and Sound Recordings.
  
  
• McDonald, Ian, 1998. Protecting Indigenous Intellectual Property: A Copyright Perspective. Redfern, New South Wales: Australian Copyright Council.
  
  
• Posey, Darrell A. & Dutfield, G., 1996. Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Ottawa: International Development Research Center.
  
  
• Riley, Mary, ed., 2004. Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights: Legal Obstacles and Innovative Solutions. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
  
  
• Seeger, Anthony, 2004. "New Technology Requires New Collaborations: Changing Ourselves to Better Shape the Future." Musicology Australia, 27.
  
  
• Seeger, Anthony, & Chaudhuri, S., 2004. Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century.
  
  
• Seitel, Peter, ed., 2001. Safeguarding Traditional Cultures: A Global Assessment. Washington, DC: Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution.
  
  
• Toelken, Barre. (2004). "Beauty Behind Me; Beauty Before (AFS address)." Journal of American Folklore, 117(466):441-445.
  
  
• Toelken, Barre. (1998). "The Yellowman Tapes, 1966-1997." Journal of American Folklore 111(442):381-91.
  
  
• Vulpe, Michael. and J. Sledge. (2005). "Expanding the Knowledge Base: Managing Extended Knowledge at the National Museum of the American Indian," in J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds.). Museums and the Web 2005: Proceedings. Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, published March 31, 2005.
  
  
• Ziff, Bruce and Rao, P.V. (1997). Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  
  

Related Links

• National Anthropological Archives/Human Studies Film Archives/Smithsonian Institution
• Native American Archives Roundtable of SAA
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Society of American Archivists