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Book SynopsisAs bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrialized settings to resource-poor communities with weak or little infrastructure, countries with emerging economies are starting to expand new indigenous science bases of their own. The case studies here, from the UK, West Africa, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, Latin America and elsewhere, explore the forms of collaborative knowledge relations in play and the effects of ethics review and legal systems on local communities, and also demonstrate how anthropologically-informed insights may hope to influence key policy debates. Questions of governance in science and technology, as well as ethical issues related to bio-innovation, are increasingly being featured as topics of complex resourcing and international debate, and this volume is a much-needed resource for interdisciplinary practitioners and specialists in medical anthropology, social theory, co
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“…succeeds in catalyzing what is undoubtedly one of the most salient debates within 21st-century anthropology. The rich ethnographic chapters provide readers with food for thinking through the changes – from participation to collaboration, from informants to interlocutors – that are both the object of study for contributors and the imperatives that they are confronted with.” · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
“The volume points to valid and overlooked claims about the often- assumed benefi ts of collaboration and notes that in some settings, collaboration itself is touted as an axiomatically better way of conducting research and can yield better results than noncollaborative work. Assumptions about collaboration merit critique, and the contributors to this volume help reveal challenges in collaborative research processes.” · Collaborative Anthropologies
“Theoretically ambitious and ethnographically rich, this volume takes a timely and critical look at inter-, trans-, even post-disciplinarity, emphasizing the central importance of exploring actual experiences and cultural contexts for the purpose of addressing the limits and potential of border-crossing and broad collaboration. This is multi-sited scholarship in an extended sense, in terms of disciplinary focus as well as empirical domain, with reasonable respect for the experimental and the playful.” · Gísli Pálsson, University of Iceland
Table of Contents Preface
PART I: INTERSECTIONS AND ALIGNMENTS
Chapter 1. A Feel for Detail: New Directions in Collaborative Anthropology
Monica Konrad
Chapter 2. An Amazon Plant in Clinical Trial: Intersections of Knowledge and Practice
Françoise Barbira-Freedman
PART II: TRANSACTIONS AND BENEFITS
Chapter 3. Substantial Transactions and an Ethics of Kinship in Recent Collaborative Malaria Vaccine Trials in The Gambia
Paul Wenzel Geissler, Ann Kelly, Babatunde Imoukhuede & Robert Pool
Chapter 4. Transacting Knowledge, Transplanting Organs: Collaborative Scientific Partnerships in Mongolia
Rebecca Empson
PART III: CURRENCIES AND IMPERATIVES
Chapter 5. Currencies of Collaboration
Marilyn Strathern
Chapter 6. Collaborative Imperatives: A Manifesto, of Sorts, for the Reimagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter
Douglas Holmes & George E. Marcus
PART IV: RESEARCH AND ETHICS
Chapter 7. Building Capacity: A Sri Lankan Perspective on Research, Ethics and Accountability
Robert Simpson
Chapter 8. Global Clinical Trials and the Contextualization of Research
Ann Kelly
PART V: ALLIANCES AND DIVERSITY
Chapter 9. The Performance of Global Health R&D Alliances and Interdisciplinary Research Approaches
Sonja Marjanovic
Chapter 10. Partial Lineages in Diversity Research
Amade M.Charek
PART VI: EXPERTISES AND ATTRIBUTIONS
Chapter 11. Meeting Minds; Encountering Worlds: Sciences and Other Expertises on the North Slope of Alaska
Barbara Bodenhorn
Chapter 12. Recognizing Scholarly Subjects in the Politics of Nature: Problematizing Collaboration in Southeast Asian Area Studies
Celia Lowe
Afterword: Enabling Environments? Polyphony in 53
Monica Konrad
Notes on Contributors
Index
