Introduction
Interests over heritage and intellectual property (hereafter IP) of indigenous peoples have arisen over the past 25 years in response to the increasing empowerment of indigenous societies. This empowerment has emanated, in different degrees and context, from the spread of democracy, the strengthening of the rule of law, the reinforcement of human rights, and more inclusive political scenarios around the world. The issue of IP has then interested both indigenous populations exercising their rights in such a context and legal researchers and social scientists, especially archaeologists, who monitor and interpret these developments (Anderson 2009, 2010; Nicholas et al. 2010). On a broader perspective, sociologists have advanced the idea of the persistent imperial forms in Western democratic states which continue to affect, more than any other group, indigenous populations by imposing formal laws in detriment of native laws (Tully 2000; Simpson 2009: 517).
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Higueras, A., Woods, J. (2014). Indigenous Intellectual Property Issues in Archaeology. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_5
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