| Description |
1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Taiwan Aborigines' genes as black boxes -- Aboriginal peoples' genes as narrated and contested assemblages -- Imposing genetic distinctions: Aborginal peoples and alcoholism in genetics research -- Informed consent in the Austronesian homeland -- Were the Maori "Made in Taiwan"? -- Internet shopping carts and patenting Taiwan's "Gift to the world" -- Conclusion: the agency of the living dead in contested sovereignty |
| Summary |
Colonized since the 1600s, Taiwan is largely a nation of settlers. Yet within its population of 23 million are some 500,000 Aboriginal people. Genetic research has permeated both the political and popular spheres as Taiwanese nationalists and Chinese nationalists argue over the significance of migration theories and as the media proliferates genetic theories on predispositions to alcoholism. As this book demonstrates, genetics serve, on the one hand, to reinforce claims to a unique national identity and, on the other hand, to reinforce anti-Aboriginal prejudices. Increasingly, genetic research on Aborigines is being integrated into biotechnology planning, both in the country and through controversial US patent applications. The legacy of this work has been mass violations of the rights of Taiwanese Aborigines. Examining a troubling revival of racially configured genetic research and the questions of sovereignty it raises, Living Dead in the Pacific details a history of exploitation and resistance that represents a new area of conflict facing Aboriginal people both within Taiwan and around the world |
| Notes |
Cover has sub-title: Contested sovereignty and racism in genetic research on Taiwan aborigines |
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Windsor, 2010, under title: Living dead in the Pacific : racism, sovereignty, and biopolitics in genetics research involving Taiwan aborigines and Maori |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Guo li li shi bo wu guan Taipeh gnd |
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Ethnology -- Taiwan.
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Racism -- Taiwan
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Genetics -- Research -- Political aspects -- Taiwan
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Genetics -- Research -- Social aspects -- Taiwan
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Taiwan aborigines.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Ethnology
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Genetics -- Research -- Social aspects
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Race relations
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Racism
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Taiwan aborigines
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Rassismus
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Indigenes Volk
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Genetik
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| SUBJECT |
Taiwan -- Race relations
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| Subject |
Taiwan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780774826617 |
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0774826614 |
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0774826622 |
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9780774826624 |
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9780774826600 |
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0774826606 |
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