Sita Reddy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sita Reddy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sita |
| FAMILY NAME | Reddy |
| SIGNATURE | REDDY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sacrilege and Cultural Heritage: Intangibles in Repatriation Case Law
Making Heritage Legible: Who Owns Traditional Medical Knowledge
In recent years an increasing number of state-based heritage protection schemes have asserted ownership over traditional medical knowledge (TMK) through various forms of cultural documentation such as archives, databases, texts, and inventories. Drawing on a close reading of cultural disputes over a single system of TMK-the classical South Asian medical tradition of Ayurveda-the paper traces some of the problems, ambiguities, and paradoxes of mak…
Temporarily insane: Pathologising cultural difference in American criminal courts
In recent years, American criminal courts have seen the rise of the culture defence strategy or the argument that the defendant's cultural background should excuse crime, mitigate responsibility or reduce the penalty for criminal behaviour. This paper argues that the rise and success of this strategy in practice reflects not just multiculturalism - as earlier studies contend - but the cultural impulse known as the 'therapeutic ethic'. Using the c…
Making Heritage Legible: Who Owns Traditional Medical Knowledge
In recent years an increasing number of state-based heritage protection schemes have asserted ownership over traditional medical knowledge (TMK) through various forms of cultural documentation such as archives, databases, texts, and inventories. Drawing on a close reading of cultural disputes over a single system of TMK-the classical South Asian medical tradition of Ayurveda-the paper traces some of the problems, ambiguities, and paradoxes of mak…
Temporarily insane: Pathologising cultural difference in American criminal courts
In recent years, American criminal courts have seen the rise of the culture defence strategy or the argument that the defendant's cultural background should excuse crime, mitigate responsibility or reduce the penalty for criminal behaviour. This paper argues that the rise and success of this strategy in practice reflects not just multiculturalism - as earlier studies contend - but the cultural impulse known as the 'therapeutic ethic'. Using the c…
Temporarily insane: Pathologising cultural difference in American criminal courts
In recent years, American criminal courts have seen the rise of the culture defence strategy or the argument that the defendant's cultural background should excuse crime, mitigate responsibility or reduce the penalty for criminal behaviour. This paper argues that the rise and success of this strategy in practice reflects not just multiculturalism - as earlier studies contend - but the cultural impulse known as the 'therapeutic ethic'. Using the c…
Making Heritage Legible: Who Owns Traditional Medical Knowledge
In recent years an increasing number of state-based heritage protection schemes have asserted ownership over traditional medical knowledge (TMK) through various forms of cultural documentation such as archives, databases, texts, and inventories. Drawing on a close reading of cultural disputes over a single system of TMK-the classical South Asian medical tradition of Ayurveda-the paper traces some of the problems, ambiguities, and paradoxes of mak…
Sacrilege and Cultural Heritage: Intangibles in Repatriation Case Law
Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (1 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 works) · Bioprospecting (1 works) · Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction (1 works) · Conservation Techniques and Studies (1 works) · Criminology (1 works) · Cultural heritage (1 works)