Genetic nature/culture
Subtitle: anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide
By: edited by Alan H. Goodman, Deborah Heath, and M. Susan Lindee.
Contributors: Goodman, Alan H.; Heath, Deborah, 1952-; Lindee, M. Susan.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Human population genetics -- Congresses; Human genetics -- Research -- Congresses; Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses; Anthropological ethics -- Congresses; Genetics, Population -- trends -- Congresses; Anthropology -- Congresses; Bioethical Issues -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
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 Teresópolis, Brazil.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Anthropology and the age of genetics: practice, discourse, and critique / M. Susan Lindee, Alan Goodman, and Deborah Heath; title: Indigenous peoples, changing social and political landscapes, and human genetics in Amazonia / Ricardo Ventura Santos; title: Provenance and the pedigree: Victor McKusick's fieldwork with the old order Amish / M. Susan Lindee; title: Flexible eugenics: technologies of the self in the age of genetics / Karen-Sue Taussig, Rayna Rapp, and Deborah Heath; title: The commodification of virtual reality: the Icelandic health sector database / Hilary Rose; title: Kinship, genes, and cloning: life after Dolly / Sarah Franklin; title: For the love of a good dog: webs of action in the world of dog genetics / Donna Haraway; title: 98% chimpanzee and 35% daffodil: the human genome in evolutionary and cultural context / Jonathan Marks; title: From pure genes to GMOs: transnationalized gene landscapes in the biodiversity and transgenic food networks / Chaia Heller and Arturo Escobar; title: Future imaginaries: genome scientists as sociocultural entrepreneurs / Joan H. Fujimura; title: Reflections and prospects for anthropological genetics in South Africa / Himla Soodyall; title: The genetics of African Americans: implications for disease gene mapping and identity / Rick Kittles and Charmaine Royal; title: Human races in the context of recent human evolution: a molecular genetic perspective / Alan R. Templeton; title: Buried alive: the concept of race in science / Troy Duster; title: The good, the bad, and the ugly: promise and problems of ancient DNA for anthropology / Frederika A. Kaestle.