| Description |
xvii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / vii -- FOREWORD Sydel Silverman / ix -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / xv -- INTRODUCTION. -- Anthropology in an Age of Genetics: Practice, Discourse, and Critique -- M. Susan Lindee, Alan Goodman, and Deborah Heath / -- -- PART I.NATURE/CULTURE -- -- Section A. Human Populations/Genetic Resources -- 1. Indigenous Peoples, Changing Social and Political Landscapes, and Human Genetics in Amazonia -- Ricardo Ventura Santos / 23 -- 2. Provenance and the Pedigree: Victor McKusick's Fieldwork with the Old Order Amish -- M. Susan Lindee / 41 -- 3. Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of the Self in the Age of Genetics Karen-Sue Taussig, RaynaRapp, and Deborah Heath / 58 -- 4. The Commodification of Virtual Reality: The Icelandic Health Sector Database Hilary Rose / 77 -- Section B. Animal Species/Genetic Resources -- 5. Kinship, Genes, and Cloning: Life after Dolly Sarah Franklin / 95 -- -- -- -- 6. For the Love of a Good Dog: Webs of Action in the World of Dog Genetics -- Donna Haraway / 112 -- 7. 98% Chimpanzee and 35% Daffodil: The Human Genome in Evolutionary and Cultural Context -- Jonathan Marks / 132 -- 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 -- Chaia Heller and Arturo Escobar / z55 -- 9. Future Imaginaries: Genome Scientists as Sociocultural Entrepreneurs Joan H. Fujimura / 176 -- 10. Reflections and Prospects for Anthropological Genetics in South Africa -- Himla Soodyall / 200 -- -- Section B. Race and Human Variation -- 11. The Genetics of African Americans: Implications for Disease -- Gene Mapping and Identity -- Rick Kittles and Charmaine Royal / 2x9 -- 12. Human Races in the Context of Recent Human Evolution: -- A Molecular Genetic Perspective -- Alan R Templeton / 234 -- 13. Buried Alive: The Concept of Race in Science -- Troy Duster / 258 -- 14. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Promise and Problems of -- Ancient DNA for Anthropology -- Frederika A. Kaestle / 278 |
| Summary |
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. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Notes |
Papers presented at a Wenner-Gren Foundation international symposium, held June 11-19, 1999 in Teresopolis, Brazil |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human population genetics -- Congresses.
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Human genetics -- Research -- Congresses.
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Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
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Anthropological ethics -- Congresses.
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Genetics, Population -- trends.
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Anthropology.
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Bioethical Issues.
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| Author |
Lindee, M. Susan.
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Goodman, Alan H.
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Heath, Deborah, 1952-
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Wenner-Gren International Symposium on "Antropology in the Age of Genetics: Practice, Discourse, Critique" (1999 : Teresópolis, Brazil)
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| LC no. |
2002152222 |
| ISBN |
0520237935 paperback |
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0520237927 alkaline paper |
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