Cultural Property and the Right of Interpretation

Negotiating Folklore in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7100016
AutoresMarzolph (autor de correspondencia), Marzolph Marzolph (autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen49
Número1
Páginas1-1
Fecha de publicación2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Folklore Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0737-7037 • E-ISSN: 1543-0413
EditorialIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/jfolkrese.49.1.1
OpenAlexW2025146545
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas16

In this paper I discuss how the longstanding patterns of foreign-local interaction in Iran affect attitudes toward previously collected folklore materials. On the one hand, my discussion contributes to ongoing explorations of the consequences of colonial and postcolonial positions in folklore studies; on the other, it illuminates how cultural property can be conceptualized and employed. After a brief introduction to some of the ways that folklore has been collected in Iran, I present three case studies from my own experience. The first addresses issues of cultural property and authenticity: who has the right to speak about/ represent culture? The second deals with the expectations of field collaborators: what happens to the collected materials? How are publishing rights negotiated and communicated? In the third case study I suggest how institutional expectations change with regard to archive access. Each case study concerns communication between foreigners and locals, particularly with regard to different expectations about how to deal with historically recorded documents of verbal art that are seen as important constituents of traditional culture

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Cultural heritage · Cultural property · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Folklore · Interpretation (philosophy · Islam · Linguistics · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Property (philosophy · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy