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Genetic nature/culture : anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide /

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 co...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Goodman, Alan H. (Éditeur intellectuel), Heath, Deborah, 1952- (Éditeur intellectuel), Lindee, M. Susan (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
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Résumé: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.
Description:Papers presented at a Wenner-Gren Foundation international symposium, held June 11-19, 1999 in Teresopolis, Brazil.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xvii, 311 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520929975
0520929977
0585456348
9780585456348
1597346314
9781597346313
9786612357107
661235710X