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Title Biomapping indigenous peoples : towards an understanding of the issues / edited by Susanne Berthier-Foglar, Sheila Collingwood-Whittick and Sandrine Tolazzi
Published Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 461 pages) : illustrations
Series Cross/cultures ; 151
Cross/cultures ; 151
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- PART I: OVERVIEW -- Human Genomics and the Indigenous -- Indigenous Peoples and Western Science -- Reconstruction of Indigenous Identities in the Twentieth Century -- PART II: DEFINING AND MAPPING -- Genetic Blood Testing of Native Americans in the USA -- Indigenous Peoples: Attempts to Define -- Screening Indigenous Peoples' Genes: The End of Racism or Postmodern Bio-Imperialism? -- No Matter How White or Black the Skin, How Pure the Blood: Cherokee Identity and the 2007 Vote -- Tribal Communities and Genetic Research: Concerns and Expectations -- The Geneticization of Ethnicity and Ethnicization of Biomedicine: On the "Taiwan Bio-Bank" -- PART III: SURVIVING AND RESISTING -- Genome Survivance -- The Edge of Extinction: Ethnic Survival Among the Yukaghirs of Northern Yakutia -- Genetic Signatures of Australia's First Peoples Survive Recent History -- Nutrition and the Indigenous Body: A Genetic Concept of Food -- PART IV: OPPOSING AND RECLAIMING -- Indigenous Opposition to Genetics Research: Views from Aboriginal Australia -- Disturbing Pasts and Promising Futures: The Politics of Indigenous Genetic Research in Australia -- Difficult Conversations: Talking About Indigenous Genetic Health Research in Australia -- Travelling Bones: The Repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Remains -- Material Legacies: Indigenous Remains and Contested Values in UK Museum Collections -- Aboriginal Claims: DNA Ancestry Testing and Changing Concepts of Indigeneity -- Notes on Contributors and Editors -- Index
Summary Where do our distant ancestors come from, and which routes did they travel around the globe as hunter-gatherers in prehistoric times? Genomics provides a fascinating insight into these questions and unlocks a mass of information carried by strands of DNA
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Human population genetics.
Physical anthropology and history.
Indigenous peoples
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious.
MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases.
Human population genetics
Indigenous peoples
Physical anthropology and history
Form Electronic book
Author Berthier-Foglar, Susanne, 1953-
Collingwood-Whittick, Sheila
Tolazzi, Sandrine
ISBN 9401208662
9789401208666