Genetic Geographies

The Trouble with Ancestry

Catherine Nash (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2015
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-0-8166-9063-3 (ISBN)

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What might be wrong with genetic accounts of personal or shared ancestry and origins? Genetic studies are often presented as valuable ways of understanding where we come from and how people are related. In Genetic Geographies, Catherine Nash pursues their troubling implications for our perception of sexual and national, as well as racial, difference.

Bringing an incisive geographical focus to bear on new genetic histories and genetic genealogy, Nash explores the making of ideas of genetic ancestry, indigeneity, and origins; the global human family; and national genetic heritage. In particular, she engages with the science, culture, and commerce of ancestry in the United States and the United Kingdom, including National Geographic’s Genographic Project and the People of the British Isles project. Tracing the tensions and contradictions between the emphasis on human genetic similarity and shared ancestry, and the attention given to distinctive patterns of relatedness and different ancestral origins, Nash challenges the assumption that the concepts of shared ancestry are necessarily progressive. She extends this scrutiny to claims about the “natural” differences between the sexes and the “nature” of reproduction in studies of the geography of human genetic variation.

Through its focus on sex, nation, and race, and its novel spatial lens, Genetic Geographies provides a timely critical guide to what happens when genetic science maps relatedness.

Catherine Nash is professor of human geography in the School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Geography, Genetics, Kinship
1. Genome Geographies: The Making of Ancestry and Origins
2. Mapping the Global Human Family: Shared and Distinctive Descent
3. Our Genetic Heritage: Figuring Diversity in National Studies
4. Finding the “Truths” of Sex in Geographies of Genetic Variation
Conclusion. Degrees of Relatedness: “Natural” Geographies of Affinity and Belonging
Notes
Index

Verlagsort	Minnesota
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8166-9063-4 / 0816690634
ISBN-13	978-0-8166-9063-3 / 9780816690633
Zustand	Neuware