India, Feb. 13 -- Researchers need to scrutinise such codes' inherent and complex challenges. They also need to put collaboration at the heart of their work

There is a long and often complicated history of researchers studying Indigenous people. In 1999, the education scholar Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, in her book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples , emphasised the colonial character of much research. She warned that it

brings with it a new wave of exploration, discovery, exploitation and appropriation.

Well into the 20th century , researchers depicted groups like the Indigenous San of southern Africa in a racist fashion, fixating on their physical characteristics and writing of their "savage" or "primitive" state. ...