Indigenous arts:Its protection and promotion in modern societies and legal systems

Dr. Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy 24th September 16:00 – 18:30, Norwood Hall, Norwood Green Road, Southall – Ealing, London, UK UB2 4JA Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Systems in a Multiethnic Technological Society: Human Relationships with Each Other and NatureOrganised by American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN), Arizona, USA (www.ausn.info), Sikh Human Rights Group (SHRG), Eubios Ethics Institute

The Tamil country “Last living classical civilisation” (Michael Wood, Professor in Public History, University of Manchester)

Indigenous fruit salad! Neem+Mango+Navapazham

Avadhana kalpalata koel: spokesperson for the birds of the forest!

God and deities!Urban Commons

Colonisation

Biodiversity

…..Arts and Architecture

Food preservation

https://www.youtube.com/user/chamuandanna

A pioneering teacher

Carnatic music

Bharathanatyam

Iraivan Temple, Kauai, Hawaii

Legal challenges to indigenous societies

Cultural Rights – Poorly recognised, caught up in individualistic atomistic conception of human rights.

Recognition of human rights as ‘a community of rights’ - Alan Gewirth (1996) Community of Rights Recognition of Customary Law - Innovation frameworks in customary systems (Is there such as thing as indigenous IP?)

‘ Can we move beyond the relative and the universal to build order without imposing it, to accept pluralism without giving up on a common law?’ - M. Delmas-Marty (2009) Ordering Pluralism: A Conceptual

framework for understanding the transnational legal world

Finding modern indigenous pathways…. for indigenous arts

Understanding diaspora Understanding creative

industries Utilising heritage and

environmental movements Utilising global communication

networks and movement of people (globalisation)