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The Genealogical Science analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary populations - their histories of migration and genealogical connections to other present-day groups - this historical science is garnering ever more credibility and social reach, in large part due to a growing industry in ancestry testing. In this book, Nadia Abu El-Haj examines genetic history's working assumptions about culture and nature, identity and biology, and the individual and the collective. Through the example of the study of Jewish origins, she explores novel cultural and political practices that are emerging as genetic history's claims and "facts" circulate in the public domain and illustrates how this historical science is intrinsically entangled with cultural imaginations and political commitments. Chronicling late nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century understandings of race, nature, and culture, she identifies continuities and shifts in scientific claims, institutional contexts, and political worlds in order to show how the meanings of biological difference have changed over time. Through her focus on Jewish origins, she also analyzes genetic history as the latest iteration of a cultural and political practice now over a century old.

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• Celý názov: Genealogical Science
• Podnázov: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology
• Autor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 328
• EAN: 9780226154701
• ISBN: 022615470X
• ID: 04544063
• Nakladateľ: The University of Chicago Press
• Hmotnosť: 504 g
• Rozmery: 231 × 152 × 23 mm
• Dátum vydania: 08. May 2014

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