Bruce Albert This is Me

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1. 1. www.paiter.org

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   Published on: 7/1/2008   Last Visited: 7/9/2008

   Thanks to modern technology, 40-year-old blood samples from Brazil and Venezuela's Yanomami peoples are still being traded between researchers, as are samples from the Ticuna, an indigenous group from Brazil's far west, collected in the mid-1970s, writes Bruce Albert, research director of the Research Institute for Development, which has offices in Sao Paulo and Paris.
   
   The Ticuna cells have been incorporated into a major tool for immunology research, and one the world's largest pharmaceutical corporations has used them to delve into the genetics of the human immune system, Albert notes in the journal 'Public Anthropology: Engaging Ideas 2001'.
   
   Indigenous peoples "should be treated as fully-respected social partners, not as natural 'populations' for gene mining,' Albert concludes.

2. 2. "I Fight Because I Am Alive!" A Yanomami Leader Speaks

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   Published on: 12/4/2004   Last Visited: 2/5/2006

   Transcribed by Bruce Albert and Translated by Terence Turner
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   Bruce Albert, an anthropologist who has worked with the Yanomami for many years and who is also a member of the AAA Commission, transcribed the entire text of the interview and provided glosses for the Yanomami expressions.
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   Albert has described the development of this shamanic analysis from its earliest beginnings to its elaboration and systematization in recent years (Albert 1988), and Davi himself has produced a more recent formulation (Acao pela Cidadania 1990).

3. 3. Public Anthropology

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   Published on: 2/2/2003   Last Visited: 6/14/2005

   with Bruce Albert, Raymond Hames, Kim Hill ,
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   Bruce Albert
   
   Bruce Albert is research director at the Research Institute for Development (IRD, São Paulo, Brazil, and Paris), a french government international cooperation institution.He is also vice-president of CCPY (Comissão Pro-Yanomami) the leading NGO working with the Yanomami in Brazil.Born in Morocco, he has since 1975 been conducting ethnographic research on the social organization and religious practices of the Yanomami of Brazil as well as on the impact of social change among them.In addition, he has conducted research on indigenous NGOs and policies of sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon and has published articles on the ethics of anthropological fieldwork.