| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Culture and social practice
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Kultur und soziale Praxis.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Chapter I. Opening Pandora's Box: Bioprospecting in South Africa -- Chapter II. Methodological, Theoretical and Spatial Reflections on Bioprospecting as a Field in Translation -- Chapter III. Ambiguous Contact Zones: Politics, Economy and the Ethnographer -- Chapter IV. "Our Knowledge Belongs to Our Ancestors": Topographies of Knowledge and the Question of Property -- Chapter V. Transformative Science: From Muthi to Chemical Compound -- Chapter VI. ABS - A Stony Path Towards Sharing: The Chances and Challenges of Access and Benefit Sharing -- Chapter VII. Partial Solution: The Biocultural Community Protocol -- Chapter VIII. Closing Pandora's Box: Conclusion -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
This book deals with the values of medicinal plants and associated knowledge(s) in the field of bioprospecting in post-apartheid South Africa. Bioprospecting, the use of genetic or biological resources for commercial purposes, is a profit-oriented enterprise facing new challenges with the rise of human rights and biodiversity politics. This new situation has led to claims for political leverage made by indigenous communities, as well as to claims for national and local cultural identity and heritage. The picture presented here contributes to the widely discussed yet so far unresolved question of how to appropriately share benefits, and how to protect indigenous knowledge in this field. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medicinal plants -- South Africa -- 1994-
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Medicinal plants. |
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South Africa. |
| Chronological Term |
1994- |
| Subject |
Biodiversity -- South Africa.
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Medicine -- Research -- South Africa.
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Biodiversity. |
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Intellectual property -- South Africa.
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Intellectual property. |
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Medicine -- Research. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1994 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9783839447949 (electronic book) |
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3839447941 (electronic book) |
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9783837647945 |
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