Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America

ISBN 10: 0822356597 / ISBN 13: 9780822356592

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2014

In. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ria9780822356592_new

Inhaltsangabe:

In genetics laboratories in Latin America, scientists have been mapping the genomes of local populations, seeking to locate the genetic basis of complex diseases and to trace population histories. As part of their work, geneticists often calculate the European, African, and Amerindian genetic ancestry of populations. Some researchers explicitly connect their findings to questions of national identity and racial and ethnic difference, bringing their research to bear on issues of politics and identity.

Drawing on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, the contributors to Mestizo Genomics explore how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research. In Latin America, national identities are often based on ideas about mestizaje (race mixture), rather than racial division. Since mestizaje is said to involve relations between European men and indigenous or African women, gender is a key factor in Latin American genomics and in the analyses in this book. Also important are links between contemporary genomics and recent moves toward official multiculturalism in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. One of the first studies of its kind, Mestizo Genomics sheds new light on the interrelations between "race," identity, and genomics in Latin America.

Contributors. Adriana Díaz del Castillo H., Roosbelinda Cárdenas, Vivette García Deister, Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto, Michael Kent, Carlos López Beltrán, María Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Eduardo Restrepo, Mariana Rios Sandoval, Ernesto Schwartz-Marín, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Peter Wade

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Carlos LÓpez BeltrÁn is a historian of science and senior researcher in the Instituto de Investigaciones FilosÓficas, Universidad Nacional AutÓnoma de MÉxico.

Eduardo Restrepo is a social anthropologist working in the Department of Cultural Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in BogotÁ.

Ricardo Ventura Santos is an anthropologist and senior researcher at the National School of Public Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro and Associate Professor of Anthropology with the National Museum at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and ...
Verlag: Duke University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New