Please join me in welcoming our latest guest blogger on Savage Minds, “Michael F. Brown”:http://www.williams.edu/AnthSoc/brown.php. Michael is the Lambert Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at “Williams College”:http://www.williams.edu. He has an extensive publication history based on his fieldwork on shamanism in Amazonia, but is perhaps best known to SM readers as the author of “Who Owns Native Culture”:http://www.williams.edu/go/native/, an excellent and widely read book on issues of indigenous rights and intellectual property.

Michael is, as it were, a long time listener and first time caller here at Savage Minds and we are super excited to have such a talented and well-respected scholar guest blogging here at the site. Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Michael F. Brown!