Genealogical Science

The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology

Autor: Nadia Abu El-Haj

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: The University of Chicago Press

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The Genealogical Science analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing fie...

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Autor

Nadia Abu El-Haj

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2014

Stránek

328

EAN

9780226154701

ISBN

022615470X

Enbook ID

04544063

Vydavatel

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnost

504

Rozměry

152 x 231 x 23

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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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