Irene Evans, Sally
(2008)
Knowledge as commodity and energetic gift : indigenous medical practices and intellectual property rights in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.
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This thesis examines the relationship between the commodification of indigenous knowledge on one hand and the inalienability of forms of indigenous knowledge that I term energetic gifts on the other hand in order to further scholarly discussion about intellectual property rights and indigenous people. I explore this relationship through the medium of Ecuadorian Amazonian indigenous medical knowledges and intellectual property rights. The arena of intellectual property rights gives rise to various positions, the extremes of which are: indigenous people need to participate in the commodification of knowledge in order to benefit from and protect their medicinal knowledge, or, conversely, commodification is an imposition of alien values and a continuance of colonialism. I argue that current intellectual property rights are unsuitable for indigenous medical knowledge.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Oct 2023 09:24 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2023 09:40 |
| DOI: | 10.17638/03174457 |
| Copyright Statement: | Copyright © and Moral Rights for this thesis and any accompanying data (where applicable) are retained by the author and/or other copyright owners. A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge |
| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3174457 |
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