An ethnography of inellectual property, discussing the uses made of items of inellectual property by various cultural groups for purposes of identity, solidaritiy, resistance and so forth. Times Literary Supplement "[F]orceful, provocative and sometimes tendentious . . . . Rosemary Coombe points us towards areas of society where the increasingly oppressive dominance of trademarks and copyrights may be resisted and possibly subverted.