Ethics of Cultural Appropriation

James O. Young is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. He has published more than 40 journal articles on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of art and is the author of Global Anti-realism (1995) and Art and Knowledge (2001) and Cultural Appropriation and the Arts (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008). Conrad G. Brunk is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and former Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria.  He is the author of numerous articles and texts on ethical issues relating to technology, the environment, law, and professional practice. Dr. Brunk consults regularly for governments and international organizations on environmental and health risk management and technology policy issues.

"There are several characteristics that make this collection of essays an admirable endeavour: the breadth of questions and disciplines covered - music, arts, archaeology, genetics, religion, ethnobiology - in an interdisciplinary dialogue moderated by philosophers; the passionate engagement of the authors with the ethics of appropriation of subaltern cultures by dominant Western cultures; the incisiveness of the debates over each theme discussed (one author debating with another before giving his/her own point of view in the shape of an individual article); the soundness of theoretical arguments and the stunning and provocative examples debated." (Journal of the Royal Astronomical Institute, 2011)

• Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiiArtist Statement xviilessLIE1. Introduction 12. Archaeological Finds: Legacies of Appropriation, Modes of Response 11George P. Nicholas and Alison Wylie3. The Appropriation of Human Remains: A First Nations Legal and Ethical Perspective 55James [Sakej] Youngblood Henderson4. The Repatriation of Human Remains 72Geoffrey Scarre5. 'The Skin Off Our Backs': Appropriation of Religion 93Conrad G. Brunk and James O. Young6. Genetic Research and Culture: Where Does the Offense Lie? 115Daryl Pullman and Laura Arbour7. Appropriation of Traditional Knowledge: Ethics in the Context of Ethnobiology 140Kelly Bannister and Maui Solomon (Part I) Conrad G. Brunk (Part II)8. A Broken Record: Subjecting 'Music' to Cultural Rights 173Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Rosemary J. Coombe with Fiona MacArailt9. Objects of Appropriation 211Andrea N. Walsh and Dominic McIver Lopes10. Do Subaltern Artifacts Belong in Art Museums? 235A.W. Eaton and Ivan Gaskell11. 'Nothing Comes from Nowhere': Refl ections on CulturalAppropriation as the Representation of Other Cultures 268James O. Young and Susan HaleyIndex 290