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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Collection of Nature and the Nature of Collecting | |
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| Revealing the Social and Spatial Dynamics of Collecting | |
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| Collecting as Simple Acquisition: Decontextualization and Exoticization | |
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| Collection as Concentration and Control | |
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| Collection as Recirculation and Regulation | |
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| New World Collectors | |
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| Speedup: Accelerating the Social and Spatial Dynamics of Collecting | |
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| Retheorizing Life Forms: Material and Informational? | |
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| The Rise of the Information and Bio-Information Economies | |
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| Emerging Markets: The Regulation of Trade in Bio-Information | |
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| New Collectors, New Collections | |
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| "When the world was a kinder and gentler place": Early Players and Vacation Pursuits | |
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| "An historic revival of collecting" | |
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| Impetus for the Revival: Technological Change | |
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| The Biodiversity Convention: New Protocols and New Ratioanles | |
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| GATT TRIPs: New Protections, New Incentives | |
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| The Practice and Process of Collecting | |
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| The Fate of the Collections | |
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| From Reproduction to Replication | |
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| "Build it for us" | |
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| Combinations and Permutations | |
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| The Diminishing Role of in situ Collecting | |
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| The Advent of Microsourcing | |
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| Re-mining ex situ Collections | |
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| The Emerging Trade in Collected Genetic and Biochemical Materials | |
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| Hire Plants: Renters and Brokers | |
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| Transacting Bio-Information: Licensing and "Pay-Per-View" | |
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| Taming the Slippery Beast: Regulating Trade in Bio-Information | |
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| Compensatory Agreements: The Rise of a Proto-Universal Culture of Regulation? | |
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| Networks, Capillaries, and the Geography of Knowledge Systems | |
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| Compensatory Agreements: Investigating Terms and Conditions | |
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| Infrastructural Support and Technical Training | |
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| Future Benefits: Royalty Payments | |
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| Taming the Slippery Beast | |
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| Regulating the Unlicensed Copying of Bio-Information | |
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| Concentration and Control: Patenting Collected Materials | |
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| The Complexities of "Co-Inventorship" | |
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| Back to the Future | |
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| Methodology | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |