Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- First Words -- PART I Biocolonialism as Imperial Science -- 1 Imperialism Then and Now -- Introduction: Some Exhibits -- Marketing Native America -- The Cultural Politics of Ownership -- Genetic Imperialism and the "Common Heritage" -- Biocolonialism: Science and Empire -- Legitimation -- 2 Indigenous Knowledge, Power, and Responsibility -- Introduction -- Pluralism and Anti-Pluralism -- Story: Experience and Imagination in Indigenous Knowledge Systems -- Relatedness -- Respect, or the Wish-to-Be-Appreciated -- Knowledge, Inherent Value, and Landkeeping -- 3 Value-Neutrality and Value-Bifurcation: The Cultural Politics of Science -- Value-Neutrality and the Pure/Applied Science Distinction -- Indigenism, Value-Bifurcation, and Boundary-Work -- Knowledge, Power, and Science -- PART II The Human Genome Diversity Project: A Case Study -- 4 The Rhetoric of Research Justification -- The Normative Dynamics of Value-Bifurcation -- Rhetoric, Knowledge Production, and the Pure/Applied Science Distinction -- The Rhetoric of Pursuit -- 5 Indigenist Critiques of Biocolonialism -- Contesting the Diversity Project -- Planned or Under Way? -- Racism or Representation? -- Contextualizing the HGDP -- Why Patenting Is Not an Answer -- Conclusion -- PART III Legitimation: The Rule and Role of Law -- 6 The Commodification of Knowledge -- The Market System and the Rise of Intellectual Property -- Gifts and Commodities -- Normative Dimensions of Knowledge -- Economic and Political Entrepreneurship in the New Imperial Science -- Resisting the Politics of Disappearance -- 7 Intellectual Property Rights as Means and Mechanism of Imperialism -- The Origins of Copyright Law -- Innovation and Individuality -- The Assimilative Potential of Intellectual Property Rights.

Altering Communal Relationships -- Conclusion -- 8 Transforming Sovereignties -- Two Strands of Sovereignty Research -- The Crises of State-Sovereignty -- Critiques of State Sovereignty -- Colonialism and the Sovereignty Doctrine -- Reclaiming Indigenous Sovereignty -- Weaving the Strands Together: Prospects, Problems, and Promises -- Conclusion - The Politics of Knowledge: Resistance and Recovery -- Bibliography -- LEGAL CITATIONS -- Index.