Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Peoples: A History of the Topic as an Object of Study
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The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of scholarship around the topic of intellectual property law and indigenous people. Joining together fields as diverse as law, ethnobotany, pharmacology and anthropology, this topic has transformed theory and practice in each of these fields, becoming, for example, an established subfield in the discipline of anthropology, a subject of ethical debate among ethnobotanists and a pragmatic framework for certain pharmaceutical companies and governmental agencies.
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