Genetic nature/culture : anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide / edited by Alan H. Goodman, Deborah Heath, and M. Susan Lindee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodman, Alan H.

Heath, Deborah, 1952-

Lindee, M. Susan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human population genetics--Congresses.

Human population genetics.

Human genetics--Research--Congresses.

Human genetics.

Human genetics--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.

Anthropological ethics--Congresses.

Anthropological ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Anthropology in an Age of Genetics

Chapter 1. Indigenous Peoples, Changing Social and Political Landscapes, and Human Genetics in Amazonia

Chapter 2. Provenance and the Pedigree

Chapter 3. Flexible Eugenics

Chapter 4. The Commodification of Virtual Reality

Chapter 5. Kinship, Genes, and Cloning

Chapter 6. For the Love of a Good Dog

Chapter 7. 98% Chimpanzee and 35% Daffodil

Chapter 8. From Pure Genes to GMOs

Chapter 9. Future Imaginaries

Chapter 10. Reflections and Prospects for Anthropological Genetics in South Africa

Chapter 11. The Genetics of African Americans

Chapter 12. Human Races in the Context of Recent Human Evolution

Chapter 13. Buried Alive

Chapter 14. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Papers presented at a Wenner-Gren Foundation's international symposium, "Antropology in the Age of Genetics: Practice, Discourse, Critique", which took place in June 1999, in Teresopolis, Brazil.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612357107

9781597346313

1597346314

9780520929975

0520929977

9781282357105

1282357107

OCLC:

52471138