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Genetic Nature/Culture : Anthropology and Science beyond the Two-Culture Divide.
Title:
Genetic Nature/Culture : Anthropology and Science beyond the Two-Culture Divide.
Author:
Goodman, Alan H., Prof.
ISBN:
9780520929975
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (330 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Anthropology in an Age of Genetics: Practice, Discourse, and Critique -- PART I: NATURE/CULTURE -- Section A. Human Populations/Genetic Resources -- 1. Indigenous Peoples, Changing Social and Political Landscapes, and Human Genetics in Amazonia -- 2. Provenance and the Pedigree: Victor McKusick's Fieldwork with the Old Order Amish -- 3. Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of the Self in the Age of Genetics -- 4. The Commodification of Virtual Reality: The Icelandic Health Sector Database -- Section B. Animal Species/Genetic Resources -- 5. Kinship, Genes, and Cloning: Life after Dolly -- 6. For the Love of a Good Dog: Webs of Action in the World of Dog Genetics -- 7. 98% Chimpanzee and 35% Daffodil: The Human Genome in Evolutionary and Cultural Context -- PART II: CULTURE/NATURE -- Section A. Political and Cultural Identity -- 8. From Pure Genes to GMOs: Transnationalized Gene Landscapes in the Biodiversity and Transgenic Food Networks -- 9. Future Imaginaries: Genome Scientists as Sociocultural Entrepreneurs -- 10. Reflections and Prospects for Anthropological Genetics in South Africa -- Section B. Race and Human Variation -- 11. The Genetics of African Americans: Implications for Disease Gene Mapping and Identity -- 12. Human Races in the Context of Recent Human Evolution: A Molecular Genetic Perspective -- 13. Buried Alive: The Concept of Race in Science -- 14. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Promise and Problems of Ancient DNA for Anthropology -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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. Individual essays address issues raised by the science, politics, and history of race, evolution, and identity; genetically modified organisms and genetic diseases; gene work and ethics; and the boundary between humans and animals. The result is an entree to the complicated nexus of questions prompted by the power and importance of genetics and genetic thinking, and the dynamic connections linking culture, biology, nature, and technoscience. The volume offers critical perspectives on science and culture, with contributions that span disciplinary divisions and arguments grounded in both biological perspectives and cultural analysis. An invaluable resource and a provocative introduction to new research and thinking on the uses and study of genetics, Genetic Nature/Culture is a model of fruitful dialogue, presenting the quandaries faced by scholars on both sides of the two-cultures debate.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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