Racial Identities, Genetic Ancestry, and Health in South America

Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay
Herausgeber: Gibbon, S.; Santos, R.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The edited collection brings together social and biological anthropology scholars, biologists, and geneticists to examine the interface between Genetic Admixture, Identity and Health, directly contributing to an emerging field of 'bio-cultural anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us / Palgrave Macmillan US
• 2011 edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781349293056
• ISBN-10: 1349293059
• Artikelnr.: 45076194

Autorenporträt

SAHRA GIBBON has a Lectureship at University College London, UK.  MÓNICA SANS is Director in the Biological Anthropology Department at Universidad de la República, Uruguay. RICARDO VENTURA SANTOS is Professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; N.Redclift PART I: DOING AND DEFINING "BIO-CULTURAL" ANTHROPOLOGY
AS APPLIED TO GENETICS Anthropology, Race, and the Dilemmas of Identity in
the Age of Genomics; R.Ventura Santos  & M.Chor Maio The Inexistence of
Biology Verses the Existence of Social Races: Can Science Inform Society?;
S.D.J.Pena  & T.S.Birchal Ethics/Bioethics and Anthropological Fieldwork;
A.L.Caratini PART II: ADMIXTURE MAPPING AND GENOMICS IN SOUTH AMERICA AND
BEYOND Admixture Dynamics in Hispanics: A Shift in the Nuclear Genetic
Ancestry of a South American Population Isolate; L.Ruiz Pharmacogenetic
Studies in the Brazilian Population; G.Suarez-Kurtz  & S.D.J.Pena Admixture
Mapping and Genetic Technologies; B.Bertoni The Significance of Sickle Cell
Anemia within the Context of the Brazilian Government's 'Racial Policies'
(1995-2004); P.H.Fry   PART III: GENETIC ADMIXTURE HISTORY, NATIONHOOD AND
IDENTITY IN SOUTH AMERICA Gene Admixture and Type of Marriage in a Sample
of Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area; F.R.Carnese Ethnic/Race
Self-Adscription, Genetics, and National Identity in Uruguay; M.Sans Forced
Disappearance and Suppresion of Identity of Children in Argentina:
Experiences after Genetic Identification; V.B.Penchaszadeh Molecular
Vignettes of the Columbian Nation: The Place of Race and Ethnicity in
Networks of Biocapital; C.A.Barrigan Afterward/Commentaries; R.Rapp,
T.Disotell, M.Montoya  & P.Wade