Colonial encounters in postcolonial contexts: Patenting indigenous DNA and the human genome diversity project

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 205-233

  Cunningham, Hilary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropological ethics; Ethnographic practice; Genetic anthropology globalization; Indigenous politics; Political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039657241     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X9801800205     Document Type: Article

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