Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and Science beyond the Two-Culture Divide

Table of contents

• Genetic Nature/culture *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Illustrations vii
• Foreword ix
• Preface and Acknowledgments xv
• Introduction - Practice, Discourse, and Critique 1
• Notes *
• References 18
• Part 1 - Nature/culture *
• Section A - Human Populations/genetic Resources *
• Chapter 1 - Indigenous Peoples, Changing Social and Political Landscapes, and Human Genetics in Amazonia 23
• Notes *
• References *
• Chapter 2 - Victor Mckusick's Fieldwork with the Old Order Amish 41
• Notes *
• References *
• Chapter 3 - Technologies of the Self in the Age of Genetics 58
• Notes *
• References *
• Chapter 4 - The Icelandic Health Sector Database 77
• Notes *
• References 93
• Section B - Animal Species/genetic Resources *
• Chapter 5 - Life After Dolly 95
• Notes *
• References *
• Chapter 6 - Webs of Action in the World of Dog Genetics 111
• Notes *
• References *
• Chapter 7 - The Human Genome in Evolutionary and Cultural Context 132
• Notes *
• References *
• Part 2 - Culture/nature *
• Section A - Political and Cultural Identity *
• Chapter 8 - Transnationalized Gene Landscapes in the Biodiversity and Transgenic Food Networks 155
• Notes *
• References *
• Chapter 9 - Genome Scientists as Sociocultural Entrepreneurs 176
• Notes *
• References *
• Chapter 10 - Reflections and Prospects for Anthropological Genetics in South Africa 200
• Notes *
• References *
• Section B - Race and Human Variation *
• Chapter 11 - Implications for Disease Gene Mapping and Identity 219
• Notes *
• References 230
• Chapter 12 - A Molecular Genetic Perspective 234
• Notes 254
• References *
• Chapter 13 - The Concept of Race in Science 258
• Notes *
• References *
• Chapter 14 - Promise and Problems of Ancient Dna for Anthropology 278
• Notes *
• References *
• Contributors 297
• Index 299

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