ForewordChris Hann (Max Planck Institute, Germany)IntroductionMark Busse (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and Veronica Strang (University of Auckland, New Zealand)PART ONE - SUBJECTS, PERSONHOOD AND PEOPLEHOODChapter
1. Sharing, Stealing and Borrowing SimultaneouslyMarilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge, UK)Chapter
2. On Having Achieved Appropriation: the Anak Berprestasi of Kepulauan RiauNicholas Long (University of Cambridge, UK)Chapter
3. Appropriating Authentic Practice: Competing Discourses of 'Being There', 'Having Been There' and 'Virtually Being There'Tamara Kohn (University of Melbourne, Australia) Chapter
4. Dreaming in Thread: from Ritual to Art and Property(s) Between Katie Glaskin (University of Western Australia)Chapter
5. The Legal Geographies of Cultural Rights: Community Subjects and their TraditionsRosemary Coombe (York University, UK)PART TWO - MATERIALITY AND IMMATERIALITYChapter
6. Cultural AppropriationTaihakurei (Eddie) Durie (Ngati Kauwhata, Aotearoa, New Zealand)Chapter
7. The Double Movement of Property Rights and Rental Regimes in Papua New GuineaColin Filer (Australian National University) and Michael Lowe (Australian National University)Chapter
8. Fluid Forms: Owning Water in AustraliaVeronica Strang (University of Auckland, New Zealand)Chapter
9. Appropriating Fish, Appropriating Fishermen: Tradable Permits, Natural Resources and Existential UncertaintyMonica Minnegal (University of Melbourne, Australia), Peter Dwyer (University of Melbourne, Australia)Chapter
10. Can't Find Nothing on the Radio: Access to the Radio Frequency Spectrum in NepalMichael Wilmore (University of Adelaide, Australia), Pawan Prakash Upreti (Equal Access Nepal)PART THREE - OWNERSHIP AS SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONChapter
11. The Village That Wasn't There: the Narrative Appropriation of a Tourist DestinationAdam Kaul (Augustana College, USA)Chapter
12. Formed and Forming: the Articulations of Yolngu Art in its ContextsHoward Morphy (Australian National University)Index