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Type: Textbook
Book Title: Who Owns Native Culture?
Item Length: 0.8in
Item Height: 0.1in
Item Width: 0.6in
Author: Michael F. Brown
Format: Book, Trade Paperback, Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Intellectual Property / General, Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Indigenous Peoples, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Property, Native American
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2004
Genre: Law, History, Social Science, Political Science
Item Weight: 13.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
