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Identity Politics and the New Genetics
Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
Av Katharina Schramm, David Skinner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1921 kr
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Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular …
Substitute Parents
Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies
Häftad, 2012
588 kr
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From a comparative perspective, human life histories are unique and raising offspring is unusually costly: humans have relatively short birth intervals compared to other apes, childhood is long, mothers care simultaneously for many dependent children (other apes raise one offspring at a time), …
Identity Politics and the New Genetics
Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
Av Katharina Schramm, David Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
307 kr
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Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular …
Ethics in the Field
Contemporary Challenges
Av Jeremy MacClancy, Agustín Fuentes
Häftad, 2015
527 kr
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In recent years ever-increasing concerns about ethical dimensions of fieldwork practice have forced anthropologists and other social scientists to radically reconsider the nature, process, and outcomes of fieldwork: what should we be doing, how, for whom, and to what end? In this volume, …
Health and Difference
Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements
Av Alexandra Widmer, Veronika Lipphardt
Inbunden, 2016
1916 kr
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Human variation represented a central research topic for life scientists and posed challenging administrative issues for colonial bureaucrats in the first half of the 20th century. By following scientists’ and administrators’ interests in innovating styles and tools for making and circulating …
Understanding Conflicts about Wildlife
A Biosocial Approach
Av Catherine M. Hill, Amanda D. Webber m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
527 kr
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Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed and understood as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, a greater depth of analysis reveals that many instances of human-wildlife conflict are often better understood as people-people conflict, …
Migration and Health
Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy
Av Nadia El-Shaarawi, Stéphanie Larchanché
Inbunden, 2022
1979 kr
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Despite the centrality of migration in our contemporary world, scholarship on mobility and health frequently separates migrants according to legal status, country of origin, destination, or health concern. Yet people on the move and health systems face challenges and opportunities that transcend …
Migration and Health
Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy
Av Nadia El-Shaarawi, Stéphanie Larchanché
Häftad, 2026
467 kr
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Despite the centrality of migration in our contemporary world, scholarship on mobility and health frequently separates migrants according to legal status, country of origin, destination, or health concern. Yet people on the move and health systems face challenges and opportunities that transcend …
Health, Risk, and Adversity
Av Catherine Panter-Brick, Agustín Fuentes
Häftad, 2010
543 kr
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Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. This volume provides a unique perspective - a …
Race, Ethnicity, and Nation
Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics
Av Peter Wade
Inbunden, 2007
1861 kr
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Race, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to family and kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than they usually get in social science, above all when family and kinship are changing rapidly in the context of genomic and biotechnological revolutions. Drawing on data from …
Race, Ethnicity, and Nation
Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics
Av Peter Wade
Häftad, 2009
440 kr
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Race, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to family and kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than they usually get in social science, above all when family and kinship are changing rapidly in the context of genomic and biotechnological revolutions. Drawing on data from …
Centralizing Fieldwork
Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology
Av Jeremy MacClancy, Agustín Fuentes
Häftad, 2010
527 kr
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Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across …
