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Race, color, identity : rethinking discourses about 'Jews' in the twenty-first century /

Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and technological innovations has taken on racial overtones, such as attributing inherited physiological traits to certain ethnic groups or using DNA testing to determine biological links...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sicher, Efraim (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and technological innovations has taken on racial overtones, such as attributing inherited physiological traits to certain ethnic groups or using DNA testing to determine biological links with ethnic ancestry. This book contributes to the discussion by opening up previously locked concepts of the relation between the terms color, race, and "Jews", and by engaging with globalism, multiculturalism, hybridity, and diaspora. The contributors-leading scholars in anthropology, sociolog.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 380 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-363) and index.
ISBN:9780857458933
0857458930
1299777678
9781299777675