| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
From "degeneration" to "meeting point" : historical views on race, mixture, and the biological diversity of the Brazilian population / Ricardo Ventura Santos, Michael Kent, and Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto -- Nation and difference in the genetic imagination of Colombia / Eduardo Restrepo, Ernesto Schwartz-Marín, and Roosbelinda Cárdenas -- Negotiating the Mexican mestizo : on the possibility of a national genomics / Carlos López Beltrán, Vivette García Deister, and Mariana Rios Sandoval -- "The Charrua are alive" : the genetic resurrection of extinct indigenous populations in southern Brazil / Michael Kent and Ricardo Ventura Santos -- From the lab to the literature : the travels of humans, categories, and other genetic products : a case study of the practice of population genetics in Colombia / María Fernanda Olarte Sierra and Adriana Díaz del Castillo H. -- Laboratory life of the Mexican mestizo / Vivette García Deister -- Social categories and laboratory practices in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico : a comparative overview / Peter Wade, Vivette García Deister, Michael Kent, and María Fernanda Olarte Sierra |
| Summary |
In genetics laboratories in Latin America, scientists have been mapping the genomes of local populations, seeking to locate the genetic basis of complex diseases and to trace population histories. As part of their work, geneticists often calculate the European, African, and Amerindian genetic ancestry of populations. Some researchers explicitly connect their findings to questions of national identity and racial and ethnic difference, bringing their research to bear on issues of politics and identity. Drawing on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, the contributors to Mestizo Genomics explore how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Lateinamerika gnd |
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Mestizos -- Latin America
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Genomics -- Social aspects -- Latin America
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Genomics -- Social aspects
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Mestizos
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Race relations
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Mestizen
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Genomik
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| SUBJECT |
Latin America -- Race relations -- History
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| Subject |
Latin America
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wade, Peter, 1957- editor.
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López Beltrán, Carlos, 1957- editor
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Restrepo, Eduardo, editor.
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Santos, Ricardo Ventura, 1964- editor.
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| LC no. |
2013026441 |
| ISBN |
9780822376729 |
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0822376725 |
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