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Author Rutert, Britta, author

Title Contested properties : peoples, plants and politics in post-apartheid South Africa / Britta Rutert
Published Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Culture and social practice
Kultur und soziale Praxis.
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
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 19, 2020)
Subject Medicinal plants -- South Africa -- 1994-
Biodiversity -- South Africa
Medicine -- Research -- South Africa
Intellectual property -- South Africa
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Biodiversity
Intellectual property
Medicinal plants
Medicine -- Research
South Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783839447949
3839447941