Description: Further DetailsTitle: Genetic GeographiesCondition: NewSubtitle: The Trouble with AncestryISBN-10: 0816690731EAN: 9780816690732ISBN: 9780816690732Publisher: University of Minnesota PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/01/2015Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 25mmAuthor: Catherine NashGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Genetic Geographies
Title: Genetic Geographies
Subtitle: The Trouble with Ancestry
ISBN-10: 0816690731
EAN: 9780816690732
ISBN: 9780816690732
Release Date: 04/01/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: Genetic Geographies : the Trouble with Ancestry
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Genealogy & Heraldry, Historical Geography, Discrimination & Race Relations, Human Geography, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.7 Oz
Subject Area: Référence, Social Science, Science, History
Author: Catherine Nash
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
