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Analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. In this book, the author examines genetic history's working assumptions about culture and nature, identity and biology, and the individual and the collective.

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"Abu El-Haj brilliantly describes the intellectual interplay between anthropology, epistemology, popular memes of society and political order, political commitments, ideologies, and how these factors influence cultural imaginations specifically through genetic anthropology." (Metascience)"

The Genealogical Science

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 08/05/2014
    ISBN13: 9780226154701, 978-0226154701
    ISBN10: 022615470X
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. In this book, the author examines genetic history's working assumptions about culture and nature, identity and biology, and the individual and the collective.

    Trade Review
    "Abu El-Haj brilliantly describes the intellectual interplay between anthropology, epistemology, popular memes of society and political order, political commitments, ideologies, and how these factors influence cultural imaginations specifically through genetic anthropology." (Metascience)"

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