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PublisherBerghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN-101845456815
ISBN-139781845456818
eBay Product ID (ePID)73454739
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Number of Pages210 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRace, Ethnicity, and Nation : Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics
SubjectEthnic Studies / General, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / Physical, Anthropology / General
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorPeter Wade
Subject AreaSocial Science, Science, Medical
SeriesRethinking Biosocial Anthropology Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight10.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2010-285586
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"The highlight of this collection is the depth and consistency of its comparative approach;... A further point of interest in this collection is the significant attention to media sources that the authors give." · American Ethnologist "This collection fulfils its aim of broadening the terms and contexts of current debate...It is...recommended to scholars interested in human relatedness in its different forms and particularly those working at the intersections between relatedness and development in bioscience." · Journal of Biosocial Science "Rich with examples, taken together this volume extends in important ways our understanding of race, ethnicity, and nation through the perspective of kinship, conceived as entailing, as Wade puts it, 'a constant traffic between natural and cultural idioms'." · JRAI, "The highlight of this collection is the depth and consistency of its comparative approach;... A further point of interest in this collection is the significant attention to media sources that the authors give." American Ethnologist "This collection fulfils its aim of broadening the terms and contexts of current debate...It is...recommended to scholars interested in human relatedness in its different forms and particularly those working at the intersections between relatedness and development in bioscience." Journal of Biosocial Science "Rich with examples, taken together this volume extends in important ways our understanding of race, ethnicity, and nation through the perspective of kinship, conceived as entailing, as Wade puts it, 'a constant traffic between natural and cultural idioms'." JRAI, "The highlight of this collection is the depth and consistency of its comparative approach;... A further point of interest in this collection is the significant attention to media sources that the authors give." American Ethnologist "This collection fulfils its aim of broadening the terms and contexts of current debate...It is...recommended to scholars interested in human relatedness in its different forms and particularly those working at the intersections between relatedness and development in bioscience." Journal of Biosocial Science "Rich with examples, taken together this volume extends in important ways our understanding of race, ethnicity, and nation through the perspective of kinship, conceived as entailing, as Wade puts it, 'a constant traffic between natural and cultural idioms'." JRAI
Series Volume Number1
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal305.8
Table Of ContentPreface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Race, Ethnicity and Nation: Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics Peter Wade Chapter 2. Race, Genetics and Inheritance: Reflections upon the Birth of 'Black' Twins to a 'White' IVF Mother Katharine Tyler Chapter 3. Race, Biology and Culture in Contemporary Norway: Identity and Belonging in Adoption, Donor Gametes and Immigration Signe Howell and Marit Melhuus Chapter 4. 'I want her to learn her language and maintain her culture.' Transnational Adoptive Families' Views of 'Cultural Origins' Diana Marre Chapter 5. Racialization, Genes and the Reinventions of Nation in Europe Ben Campbell Chapter 6. Kinship, Language and the Dynamics of Race: The Basque Case Enric Porqueres i Gené Chapter 7. The Transmission of Ethnicity: Family and State - A Lithuanian Perspective Darius Dauksas Chapter 8. Media Storylines of Culturally Hybrid Persons and Nation Ben Campbell Glossary Index
SynopsisRace, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to family and kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than they usually get in social science, above all when family and kinship are changing rapidly in the context of genomic and biotechnological revolutions. Drawing on data from assisted reproduction, transnational adoption, mixed race families, Basque identity politics and post-Soviet nation-building, this volume provides new and challenging ways to understand race, ethnicity and nation., Race, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to familyand kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than theyusually get in social science, above all when family and kinshipare changing rapidly in the context of genomic andbiotechnological revolutions. Drawing on data from assistedreproduction, transnational adoption, ......
LC Classification NumberGN269 .R334 2007
