Intangible Cultural Property, Tangible Databases, Visible Debates

The Sawau Project

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4282902
AutoresGuido Carlo Pigliasco (0000-0002-7607-3981, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen16
Número3
Páginas255-272
Fecha de publicación2009-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Cultural Property (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0940-7391 • E-ISSN: 1465-7317
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0940739109990233
OpenAlexW2140500568
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas28

Intellectual property claims have long been sustained in a way that is now under severe scrutiny. Pacific Island countries continue to face unauthorized uses of their traditional knowledge and practices. In response, international agencies in collaboration with Pacific Island countries are promoting sui generis forms of protection. The Institute of Fijian Language and Culture's Cultural Mapping Programme looks beyond ongoing debates about indigenous collection and digitization of intangible heritage to promote sui generis protection measures in lieu of western intellectual property law. Supported by an Institute grant, the unfoldingSawau Projectcreates an archive of sites, stories, and shared memories of the Sawau people of Beqa, an island iconic in Fiji for its firewalking practice (vilavilairevo). Advocating a form of social intervention in situ,The Sawau Projecthas become a collaborative tool to encourage digital documentation, linkages, and institutional collaborations among Fijian communities and their allies to negotiate and promote alternative forms of protection

Cultural heritage · Cultural property · Digitization · Documentation · Face (sociological concept · Indigenous · Intellectual property · Intervention (counseling · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Scrutiny · Social science · Sociology · Trademark · Traditional knowledge · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Engineering · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Public Administration