The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation. Explores cultural appropriation in a wide variety of contexts, among them the arts and archaeology, museums, and religion Questions whether cultural appropriation is always morally objectionable Includes research that is equally informed by empirical knowledge and general normative theory Provides a coherent and authoritative perspective gained by the collaboration of philosophers and specialists in the field who all participated in this unique research project

The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation.* Explores cultural appropriation in a wide variety of contexts, among them the arts and archaeology, museums, and religion* Questions whether cultural appropriation is always morally objectionable* Includes research that is equally informed by empirical knowledge and general normative theory* Provides a coherent and authoritative perspective gained by the collaboration of philosophers and specialists in the field who all participated in this unique research project

Notes on Contributors ixPreface xiiArtist Statement xviilessLIE1. Introduction 12. Archaeological Finds: Legacies of Appropriation, Modes ofResponse 11George P. Nicholas and Alison Wylie3. The Appropriation of Human Remains: A First Nations Legal andEthical 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 Contextof Ethnobiology 140Kelly Bannister and Maui Solomon (Part I) Conrad G. Brunk (PartII)8. A Broken Record: Subjecting 'Music' to Cultural Rights173Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Rosemary J. Coombe with FionaMacArailt9. 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