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Trade in indigenous arts and crafts:
Andolsen, Barbara Hilkert
Andolsen, Barbara Hilkert
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This paper advocates label of authenticity programs as one means to protect the cultural expressions of indigenous peoples. It describes label of authenticity programs in the United States and New Zealand that are intended to prevent indigenous art works and crafts objects from being crowded out of the market by mass-produced counterfeits. These programs can help to alleviate poverty among indigenous peoples through the promotion of small business operations of indigenous artists. There are controversial aspects to such programs, particularly when defining whose work qualifies as indigenous art. Such programs represent concrete efforts to support what, in the North American context, are intellectually controversial cultural rights for minority groups. Despite problems with label of authenticity programs, I argue that they can play a modest role supporting what the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples calls the “right [of indigenous groups] to maintain, control, protect and develop ... their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions ...,” in order to help safeguard “their existence, well-being and integral development as peoples.”
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2008
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