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1 online resource (xvii, 311 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Papers presented at a Wenner-Gren Foundation international symposium, held June 11-19, 1999 in Teresopolis, Brazil. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Anthropology and the age of genetics: practice, discourse, and critique / M. Susan Lindee, Alan Goodman, and Deborah Heath -- Indigenous peoples, changing social and political landscapes, and human genetics in Amazonia / Ricardo Ventura Santos -- Provenance and the pedigree: Victor McKusick's fieldwork with the old order Amish / M. Susan Lindee -- Flexible eugenics: technologies of the self in the age of genetics / Karen-Sue Taussig, Rayna Rapp, and Deborah Heath -- The commodification of virtual reality: the Icelandic health sector database / Hilary Rose -- Kinship, genes, and cloning: life after Dolly / Sarah Franklin -- For the love of a good dog: webs of action in the world of dog genetics / Donna Haraway -- 98% chimpanzee and 35% daffodil: the human genome in evolutionary and cultural context / Jonathan Marks -- From pure genes to GMOs: transnationalized gene landscapes in the biodiversity and transgenic food networks / Chaia Heller and Arturo Escobar -- Future imaginaries: genome scientists as sociocultural entrepreneurs / Joan H. Fujimura -- Reflections and prospects for anthropological genetics in South Africa / Himla Soodyall -- The genetics of African Americans: implications for disease gene mapping and identity / Rick Kittles and Charmaine Royal -- Human races in the context of recent human evolution: a molecular genetic perspective / Alan R. Templeton -- Buried alive: the concept of race in science / Troy Duster -- The good, the bad, and the ugly: promise and problems of ancient DNA for anthropology / Frederika A. Kaestle. |
| Summary |
The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious--or more fraught with paradox--than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive response, and a welcome intervention, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to conduct an interdisciplinary dialogue that provokes and instructs even as it bridges the science/culture divide. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Human population genetics -- Congresses.
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Human population genetics. |
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Human genetics -- Research -- Congresses.
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Human genetics -- Research. |
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Human genetics. |
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Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
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Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Anthropological ethics -- Congresses.
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Anthropological ethics. |
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Genetics, Population -- trends. |
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Anthropology. |
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Bioethical Issues. |
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Congress.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Congressen (vorm)
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Goodman, Alan H., editor.
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Heath, Deborah, 1952- editor.
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Lindee, M. Susan, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Genetic nature/culture. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 0520237927 (DLC) 2002152222 (OCoLC)50851680 |
| ISBN |
9780520929975 (electronic book) |
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0520929977 (electronic book) |
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0585456348 (electronic book) |
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9780585456348 (electronic book) |
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1597346314 (electronic book) |
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9781597346313 (electronic book) |
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0520237927 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520237926 (alkaline paper) |
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0520237935 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520237933 (pbl. ; alkaline paper) |
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1282357107 |
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9781282357105 |
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