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

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ISBN:

9780520929975

9780585456348

9781597346313

Title:

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

Author:

Goodman, Alan H., editor.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 311 pages)

General Note:

Papers presented at a Wenner-Gren Foundation international symposium, held June 11-19, 1999 in Teresopolis, Brazil.

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.

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Subject Term:

Human population genetics -- Congresses.

Human genetics -- Research -- Congresses.

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

Anthropological ethics -- Congresses.

Genetics, Population -- trends.

Anthropology.

Bioethical Issues.

Added Author:

Goodman, Alan H.,

Heath, Deborah, 1952-

Lindee, M. Susan,

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2003

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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.

Author Notes

Goodman Alan H. :

Alan H. Goodman is Professor of Biological Anthropology at Hampshire College. Deborah Heath is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lewis and Clark College. M. Susan Lindee is Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.