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Jan 2015
57m 20s

Biosecurity practices in labs and museum...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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A discussion of the relationship between the anthropology of biosecurity and the rationality of risk as well as the anthropology of human-animal relationships. Anthropology Departmental Seminar by Frédéric Keck, Musée de quai Branly (21 November 2014) 
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