ANTH 3220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Commodification, Drug Discovery, Rationality
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Commodification is the transformation of goods and services, as well as ideas or other entities that normally may not be considered goods, into a commodity (in the marxist sense of the word). The commons and private property (property = belonging to, exclusive rights) Kidney and liver (notion that there is a spare" kidney!) Nancy scheper-hughes the global traffic in human organs . Confusion between gift giving and commodification (note: relatives give gifts) Poorer circumstances, desperate, marginalized, in debt, compelled, prisoner (consent is problematic) Science fiction: cloning for body parts the island . For us, this is about property, intellectual property, the process of commodification 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) To understand why it fell apart, need to understand two things: The maya"s approach to medicine, based on reciprocity and shared rights.