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From market to market: Bioprospecting's idioms of inclusion
Author(s) -
Hayden Cori
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.2003.30.3.359
Subject(s) - bioprospecting , indigenous , latin americans , inclusion (mineral) , inclusion–exclusion principle , politics , globalization , political science , sociology , social science , law , ecology , biology
In this article I explore how "community" and its foil, the (urban) market, provide competing models for the market‐mediated modes of inclusion and exclusion on offer through bioprospecting agreements. Focusing on the collecting strategies of Mexican scientists implementing one such agreement, I show how community and market inform prospecting participants' ideas not just about (re)distributing benefits but also about managing the political liabilities now haunting corporate resource extraction in the South [bioprospecting, anthropology of science, Mexico, Latin America, globalization, intellectual property, indigenous rights]