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Genetic nature/culture : anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide

Author: Alan H Goodman; Deborah Heath; M Susan Lindee
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Congrès
Material Type: Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alan H Goodman; Deborah Heath; M Susan Lindee
ISBN: 0520237927 9780520237926 0520237935 9780520237933
OCLC Number: 50851680
Notes: Papers presented at a Wenner-Gren Foundation's international symposium, "Anthropology in the Age of Genetics: Practice, Discourse, Critique", which took place in June 1999, in Teresópolis, Brazil.
Description: xvii, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Alan H. Goodman, Deborah Heath, and M. Susan Lindee.
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