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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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    A Paperback / softback by Nadia Abu El-Haj

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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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