Biomapping indigenous peoples : towards an understanding of the issues /

Where do our distant ancestors come from, and which routes did they travel around the globe as hunter-gatherers in prehistoric times? Genomics provides a fascinating insight into these questions and unlocks a mass of information carried by strands of DNA.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Berthier-Foglar, Susanne, 1953-, Collingwood-Whittick, Sheila, Tolazzi, Sandrine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2012.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 151.
Temas:
Human population genetics.
Physical anthropology and history.
Indigenous peoples.
Génétique des populations humaines.
Anthropologie physique et histoire.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Contagious.
MEDICAL > Infectious Diseases.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • PART I: OVERVIEW
  • Human Genomics and the Indigenous
  • Indigenous Peoples and Western Science
  • Reconstruction of Indigenous Identities in the Twentieth Century
  • PART II: DEFINING AND MAPPING
  • Genetic Blood Testing of Native Americans in the USA
  • Indigenous Peoples: Attempts to Define
  • Screening Indigenous Peoples' Genes: The End of Racism or Postmodern Bio-Imperialism?
  • No Matter How White or Black the Skin, How Pure the Blood: Cherokee Identity and the 2007 Vote
  • Tribal Communities and Genetic Research: Concerns and Expectations
  • The Geneticization of Ethnicity and Ethnicization of Biomedicine: On the "Taiwan Bio-Bank"
  • PART III: SURVIVING AND RESISTING
  • Genome Survivance
  • The Edge of Extinction: Ethnic Survival Among the Yukaghirs of Northern Yakutia
  • Genetic Signatures of Australia's First Peoples Survive Recent History
  • Nutrition and the Indigenous Body: A Genetic Concept of Food
  • PART IV: OPPOSING AND RECLAIMING
  • Indigenous Opposition to Genetics Research: Views from Aboriginal Australia
  • Disturbing Pasts and Promising Futures: The Politics of Indigenous Genetic Research in Australia
  • Difficult Conversations: Talking About Indigenous Genetic Health Research in Australia
  • Travelling Bones: The Repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Remains
  • Material Legacies: Indigenous Remains and Contested Values in UK Museum Collections
  • Aboriginal Claims: DNA Ancestry Testing and Changing Concepts of Indigeneity
  • Notes on Contributors and Editors
  • Index.

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