Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important contribution to the growing body of social science critiques of human population genetics."
—Peter Wade, coeditor of Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America
"Excellent as a baseline study of ancestry and genealogy and, most importantly, addresses the misconceptions that have so long dominated race and ancestry."—CHOICE
"The most original contribution of Genetic Geographies is found in Nash’s reading of the assumptions about sex, sexuality, and reproduction on which anthropological genetics builds its historical tales. Nash explores in vivid detail how the assertion of fundamental sex differences is essential to interpreting the genetic data."—Bulletin of the History of Medicine
"This is an important read — for anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and STS scholars, students and academics alike. It is written in an accessible and engaging style that also reaches out to audiences beyond the social sciences."—Anthropos
"Genetic Geographies illuminates how genetics are understood scientifically, politically, socially, and historically. Moreover, Nash reveals that while information can be gained through exploring genetic geographies, interpretations are inevitably shaped by current social, cultural, and political ideologies and perspective."—New Genetics and Society
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Geography, Genetics, Kinship
1. Genome Geographies: The Making of Ancestry and Origins
2. Mapping the Global Human Family: Shared and Distinctive Descent
3. Our Genetic Heritage: Figuring Diversity in National Studies
4. Finding the “Truths” of Sex in Geographies of Genetic Variation
Conclusion. Degrees of Relatedness: “Natural” Geographies of Affinity and Belonging
Notes
Index
