Genetic nature/culture: anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide
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Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©2003
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Item Description:Papers presented at a Wenner-Gren Foundation international symposium, held June 11-19, 1999 in Teresopolis, Brazil
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 311 pages)
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