Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge

摘要: Part I: The Lodge of Indigenous Knowledge in Modern Thought 1. Eurocentrism and the European Ethnographic Tradition Assumptions About Natural World Human Nature Assumptive Quandaries 2. What is Knowledge? Decolonizing Eurocentric Need for Definitions Entering Uncharted Territory Locating Traditional Ecological Transmission II: Towards an Understanding Rights Peoples to Their Heritage 3. Concept International Definition Sacred Ecologies Legal Corollaries Interconnected as Intellectual Property Systems 4. Importance Language Languages Illusion Benign Translatability Consequences 5. Cognitive Imperialism Education School System Clashes Educational Contexts 6. Religious Paradoxes Divine Order Secular Law Correcting False Translations Freedom from Missionaries Healing Sites Tourism, Vandalism, Problems Privacy Right Harvest Use Ceremonial Materials Practices Burial Grounds Return Reburial Ancesters' Remains Artifacts 7. Paradigmatic Science Medical Research "Biopiracy" Genetic Diversity Agricultural Biotechnology 8. Ethical Issues Eliminating Bias RCAP Guidelines Canada Canadian Councils Policy Statement Conduct on Subjects Breaches Confidentiality Community Control Professional Organizations Ethics 9. Cultural Culture Versus Recovery Objects Authenticity Communal Designs Artworks Appropriation Exhibitions Performing Arts Advertising III: Exising Regimes 10. Regime UN Conventions Covenants Technology, "Know-how", Trade Secrets Aid Measures Protection Folklore Special Instruments Concerned with 11. Constitutional Interpreting Constitution Aboriginal 12. Legislative Federal Common Provincial IV: Reforms Protect 13. Rethinking Moral Personality or Publicity Patents, Trademarks, Passing Off Commodification 14. Current United Nations Decade World's (1995-2004) Draft Declaration (1994) Protecting 15. Enhancing National Strategies Fair Equitable Sharing Benefits Management Ecosystems Present Status Ecologically Related Effective 16. Considerations Report Royal Commission Operational Principles V: Conclusion Acronyms References Acts, Regulations, Cases Index