Genetic Nature/Culture

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ISBN: 9780520237933 | 0520237935
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/1/2003

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This volume of original scholarship focuses on how anthropology is affected by and should respond to the wide range of issues associated with the culture and practice of genetics.

List of Illustrations

vii

Foreword

Sydel Silverman

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction. Anthropology in an Age of Genetics: Practice, Discourse, and Critique

(22)

M. Susan Lindee

Alan Goodman

Deborah Heath

PART I. NATURE/CULTURE

Section A. Human Populations/Genetic Resources

Indigenous Peoples, Changing Social and Political Landscapes, and Human Genetics in Amazonia

(18)

Ricardo Ventura Santos

Provenance and the Pedigree: Victor McKusick's Fieldwork with the Old Order Amish

(17)

M. Susan Lindee

Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of the Self in the Age of Genetics

(19)

Karen-Sue Taussig

Rayna Rapp

Deborah Heath

The Commodification of Virtual Reality: The Icelandic Health Sector Database

(18)

Hilary Rose

Section B. Animal Species/Genetic Resources

Kinship, Genes, and Cloning: Life after Dolly

(16)

Sarah Franklin

For the Love of a Good Dog: Webs of Action in the World of Dog Genetics

111

(21)

Donna Haraway

98% Chimpanzee and 35% Daffodil: The Human Genome in Evolutionary and Cultural Context

132

(23)

Jonathan Marks

PART II. CULTURE/NATURE

Section A. Political and Cultural Identity

From Pure Genes to GMOs: Transnationalized Gene Landscapes in the Biodiversity and Transgenic Food Networks

155

(21)

Chaia Heller

Arturo Escobar

Future Imaginaries: Genome Scientists as Sociocultural Entrepreneurs

176

(24)

Joan H. Fujimura

Reflections and Prospects for Anthropological Genetics in South Africa

200

(19)

Himla Soodyall

Section B. Race and Human Variation

The Genetics of African Americans: Implications for Disease Gene Mapping and Identity

219

(15)

Rick Kittles

Charmaine Royal

Human Races in the Context of Recent Human Evolution: A Molecular Genetic Perspective

234

(24)

Alan R. Templeton

Buried Alive: The Concept of Race in Science

258

(20)

Troy Duster

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Promise and Problems of Ancient DNA for Anthropology

278

(19)

Frederika A. Kaestle

List of Contributors

297

(2)

Index

299

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