|
|
||||
|
Culture and consent
Email: Ricki Lewis - ralewis@nycap.rr.com News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20021204-03 doi:10.1186/20021204-03
|
||||
|
|
||||
|
Blood samples collected in the 1960s from the last major isolated tribe in the Americas caused a commotion at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in New Orleans. At a session on November 22, Yanomami spokesman Peri Porapitheri raised the issue and asked members of the US anthropologists' organization to fund and attend a future meeting in Brazil to discuss the fate of the controversial samples.
|
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|