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Rights, Indigeneity, and the Market of Rastafari

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2017

Jovan Scott Lewis
Jovan Scott Lewis*
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Departments of Geography and African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States; Email: jovan@berkeley.edu
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Abstract:

This article is concerned with the ways in which discourses of rights serve to destabilize indigenous logics when used for gains in the market. It does so through examining a Rastafarian tour group who uses their participation in the tourism market to challenge what they believe are infringed cultural property rights. As a means of commercially defending these rights, the group employs a discourse of indigeneity. In this process, they have gained partial recognition from the World Intellectual Property Organization and increasing acknowledgement from the Jamaican government. However, while the basis of indigeneity strongly supports the case of intellectual and cultural property rights, this recognition ultimately further identifies the group, and Rastafari in general, with Jamaica.

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Research Article
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International Journal of Cultural Property , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2017 , pp. 57 - 77
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Copyright © International Cultural Property Society 2017 

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