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Replay: Why Did Scientists Collect the Blood of Indigenous Peoples?

March 16, 2021 at 9:48 pm · Filed under Expeditions

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Genomic History of Aboriginal Australia (Nature)

Emma Kowal talks about the history of biospecimen collection among the aboriginal peoples of Australia. Kowal is a cultural and medical anthropologist at Deakin University. She’s the co-author, along with Joanna Radin, of “Indigenous Biospecimen Collections and the Cryopolitics of Frozen Life,” published in the Journal of Sociology.

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Emma Kowal

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