Genetic Geographies: The Trouble with Ancestry

by Catherine Nash

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816690731
• ISBN13: 9780816690732
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"