Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity.
Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity.
Richard Rottenburg holds a chair in Social Anthropology at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and is Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He has written and edited books on the Sudan, economic anthropology, the transcultural production of objectivity and theorizing postneoliberal governance. Among these is Far-Fetched Facts: A Parable of Development Aid (2009).
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List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Ideas in Motion: Making Sense of Identity After DNA Katharina Schramm, David Skinner, Richard Rottenburg Chapter 1. 'Race' as a Social Construction in Genetics Andrew Smart, Richard Tutton, Paul Martin, George Ellison Chapter 2. Mobile Identities and Fixed Categories: Forensic DNA and the Politics of Racialised Data David Skinner Chapter 3. Race, Kinship and the Ambivalence of Identity Peter Wade Chapter 4. Identity, DNA, and the State in Post-Dictatorship Argentina Noa Vaisman Chapter 5. 'Do You Have Celtic, Jewish, Germanic Roots?' - Applied Swiss History Before and After DNA Marianne Sommer Chapter 6. Irish DNA: Making Connections and Making Distinctions in Y-Chromosome Surname Studies Catherine Nash Chapter 7. Genomics en route: Ancestry, Heritage, and the Politics of Identity Across the Black Atlantic Katharina Schramm Chapter 8. Biotechnological Cults of Affliction? Race, Rationality, and Enchantment in Personal Genomic Histories Stephan Palmié Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Ideas in Motion: Making Sense of Identity After DNA Katharina Schramm, David Skinner, Richard Rottenburg Chapter 1. 'Race' as a Social Construction in Genetics Andrew Smart, Richard Tutton, Paul Martin, George Ellison Chapter 2. Mobile Identities and Fixed Categories: Forensic DNA and the Politics of Racialised Data David Skinner Chapter 3. Race, Kinship and the Ambivalence of Identity Peter Wade Chapter 4. Identity, DNA, and the State in Post-Dictatorship Argentina Noa Vaisman Chapter 5. 'Do You Have Celtic, Jewish, Germanic Roots?' - Applied Swiss History Before and After DNA Marianne Sommer Chapter 6. Irish DNA: Making Connections and Making Distinctions in Y-Chromosome Surname Studies Catherine Nash Chapter 7. Genomics en route: Ancestry, Heritage, and the Politics of Identity Across the Black Atlantic Katharina Schramm Chapter 8. Biotechnological Cults of Affliction? Race, Rationality, and Enchantment in Personal Genomic Histories Stephan Palmié Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
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