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AbstractThe articles in this special issue on intellectual property in the Pacific document anxieties about culture and tradition, and about the intrusion of ideas of property into previously uncommodified areas of peoples' lives. These include fears that traditional knowledge and skills are not being passed on to young people (Nason and Peter; Pigliasco); that migrants in a globalized world will take aspects of culture with them when they leave (Nason and Peter); that anthropologists and other scholars will wrongfully appropriate and use aspects of the cultures they study for their own benefit (Van Meijl); and that profits from the commercialization of traditional knowledge, practices, and products will not go to the people who consider themselves their owners and caretakers (Lindstrom). In addition, Jo Recht's contribution provides a discussion of attempts to protect culture and tradition through international conventions and national laws. Finally, Andrew Moutu and Michael Goldsmith describe claims of ownership over aspects of nature to reflect on fundamental aspects of intellectual property and ownership more generally.

Over the last 20 years, museums have attracted unprecedented academic attention. For the first time in their history, museums as institutions have been the subject of theorizing as well as intense academic and public debates about their place in the contemporary world. Much of the theoretical work has taken place in the context of the New Museology, a critical goal of which has been to rethink the manifold and complex relationships between museums and the societies in which they exist. Advocates of the New Museology have prominently sought ways to make museums less elitist but more inclusive, that is more directly and democratically involved with their various constituencies such as the people who create and use the objects that museums collect or the audiences who visit museum exhibitions and participate in museum programs. Unfortunately, the New Museology has been rather long on theory and rather short on detailed explorations or accounts of the implications of its theoretical formulations for museum practice, that is for the day-to-day activities and interactions comprising the work that goes on in and around museums.

Part one. Subjects, personhood and people hood --Sharing, Stealing and Borrowing Simultaneously /Marilyn Strathern -- On Having Achieved Appropriation: Anak Berprestasi of Kepri, Indonesia / Nicholas Long -- Appropriating Authentic Bodily Practice from Japan: On 'Being There', 'Having Been There' and 'Virtually Being There' / Tamara Kohn -- Dreaming in Thread: from Ritual to Art and Property(s) Between / Katie Glaskin -- Possessing Culture: Political Economies of Community Subjects and their Properties / Rosemary Coombe -- Part two. Materiality and Immateriality -- Cultural Appropriation / Edward Taihakurei Durie -- One Hundred Years of Land Reform on the Gazelle Peninsula: a Baining Point of View / Colin Filer and Michael Lowe -- Fluid Forms: Owning Water in Australia / Veronica Strang -- Appropriating Fish, Appropriating Fishermen: Tradable Permits, Natural Resources and Existential Uncertainty / Monica Minnegal and Peter Dwyer -- Can't Find Nothing on the Radio: Radio Spectrum Policy and Governance in Nepal / Michael Wilmore and Pawan Prakash Upreti -- Part three. Ownership as Social Communication -- The Village That Wasn't There: Appropriation, Domination and Resistance / Adam Kaul -- Not Just Pretty Pictures: Relative Autonomy and the Articulations of Yolngu Art in its Contexts / Howard Morphy.

Intellectual, biological and cultural property rights are a powerful and debatable topic. They offer the possibility for protection of rights to intangible resources, including the products of knowledge and creativity. The forces of globalisation have made this subject of immediate, international concern. Struggles for ownership of intellectual property occur between and within local and global arenas. This book examines important questions which Papua New Guinea must ask in the development of intellectual property legislation. The chapters are written by specialists in the fields of medicine, law, the environment, music, genetics and traditional cultural knowledge. The wise and creative protection of intellectual, biological and cultural property is important if Papua New Guinea is to successfully define and realise its future. This book is for all those interested in finding the best policies for protecting these rights wherever they may live and work.