01547nas a2200193   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653002900043653002000072653003500092653003900127100001700166245011000183856004700293300001200340490000700352520098100359022001301340                                       d10aEnvironment (THE\_65229)10aHealth (THE\_9)10aIndigenous peoples (THE\_1844)10aIntellectual property (THE\_12504)1 aShane Greene00aIndigenous People Incorporated? Culture as Politics, Culture as Property in Pharmaceutical Bioprospecting  uhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/381047  a211-2370 v453 aThe ongoing debate over indigenous claims to intellectual and cultural property reveals a series of indigenous strategies of mobilization that both appropriate from and work against the logic of the market. Of particular significance in this regard are the various indigenous strategies used in contemporary pharmaceutical bioprospecting activities to address claims to traditional medical knowledge as cultural property. This article presents field data on a controversial ethnopharmaceutical project among the Aguaruna of Perus high forest and offers a comparative analysis of the outcomes with attention to several other cases in and beyond South America. In particular, questions are raised about the forms of legitimating authority in the burgeoning international indigenous movement, the role of NGOs, researchers, bureaucracies, and corporations in this process, and the dilemmas that emerge from the politicization and privatization of indigenous culture and identity.  a00113204