Genetic Nature/Culture

Anthropology and Science beyond the Two-Culture Divide

By: Alan H. Goodman (Editor), Deborah Heath (Editor), M. Susan Lindee (Editor), Sydel Silverman (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 6 November 2003 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Anthropology in an Age of Genetics: Practice, Discourse, and Critique
Nature/culture
Human Populations/Genetic Resources
Indigenous Peoples, Changing Social and Political Landscapes, and Human Genetics in Amazonia
Provenance and the Pedigree: Victor McKusick's Fieldwork with the Old Order
Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of the Self in the Age of Genetics
The Commodification of Virtual Reality: The Icelandic Health Sector Database Hilary Rose Animal Species/Genetic Resources
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
Culture/Nature
Political and Cultural Identity
From Pure Genes to GMOs: Transnationalized Gene Landscapes in the Biodiversity and Transgenic Food Networks
Future Imaginaries: Genome Scientists as Sociocultural Entrepreneurs
Reflections and Prospects for Anthropological Genetics in South Africa
Race and Human Variation
The Genetics of African Americans: Implications for Disease Gene Mapping and Identity
Human Races in the Context of Recent Human Evolution: A Molecular Genetic Perspective
Buried Alive: The Concept of Race in Science
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Promise and Problems of Ancient DNA for Anthropology
List of Contributors
Index
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