Genetic Geographies : The Trouble with Ancestry /

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What might be wrong with genetic accounts of personal or shared ancestry and origins? Genetic studies are often presented as valuable ways of understanding where we come from and how people are related. In Genetic Geographies, Catherine Nash pursues their troubling implications for our perception of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nash, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kontroverse
Nationalität
Geschlecht
Rassenbildung
Verwandtschaft
Genetische Variabilität
Populationsgenetik
Humangenetik
Genealogie
Genomprojekt
Human population genetics > Social aspects.
Historical geography.
Genealogy > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
geography.
Variabilite genetique.
Geographie.
Genetique des populations.
Geographie historique.
Genetique des populations humaines > Aspect social.
Genetic Variation
Geography
Genetics, Population
Human genetics > Variation.
Geography.
Population genetics.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:What might be wrong with genetic accounts of personal or shared ancestry and origins? Genetic studies are often presented as valuable ways of understanding where we come from and how people are related. In Genetic Geographies, Catherine Nash pursues their troubling implications for our perception of sexual and national, as well as racial, difference. Bringing an incisive geographical focus to bear on new genetic histories and genetic genealogy, Nash explores the making of ideas of genetic ancestry, indigeneity, and origins; the global human family; and national genetic heritage. In particular, she engages with the science, culture, and commerce of ancestry in the United States and the United Kingdom, including National Geographic's Genographic Project and the People of the British Isles project. Tracing the tensions and contradictions between the emphasis on human genetic similarity and shared ancestry, and the attention given to distinctive patterns of relatedness and different ancestral origins, Nash challenges the assumption that the concepts of shared ancestry are necessarily progressive. She extends this scrutiny to claims about the "natural" differences between the sexes and the "nature" of reproduction in studies of the geography of human genetic variation. Through its focus on sex, nation, and race, and its novel spatial lens, Genetic Geographies provides a timely critical guide to what happens when genetic science maps relatedness.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9781452941677

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