ANTH 3220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Drug Discovery, Data Visualization, Bioprospecting
3 Oct 2016
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Week 4 - the commodi cation of body and knowledge. Singularization = precluded from being commodi ed - there should be limits to what should be allowed to be commodi ed. The commons and private property (property = belonging to, exclusive/ownership rights) What things should never be commodi ed or become someone"s property? (water, air, people, medicine, etc. ) Maya medicine in the biological gaze (commodi cation of knowledge) For us, this is about property, intellectual property, the process of commodi cation and differences in ways of life. Project to use mayan medicine knowledge of plants and healing - drug discovery process". Maya international cooperative biodiversity group (maya icbg) Looking at indigenous knowledge - potentially taking these products/plants/medicines from different parts of the world and turn them into medicine - dif cult process requiring money/ institutions/etc. Between mayan people - freely used; but will become property and patented by the company.
