Racial Identities, Genetic Ancestry, and Health in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay

by Ricardo Ventura Santos, Sahra Gibbon, Mónica Sans

Book Overview

Preface; N.Redclift PART I: DOING AND DEFINING "BIO-CULTURAL" ANTHROPOLOGY AS APPLIED TO GENETICS Anthropology, Race, and the Dilemmas of Identity in the Age of Genomics; R.Ventura Santos & M.Chor Maio The Inexistence of Biology Verses the Existence of Social Races: Can Science Inform Society?; S.D.J.Pena & T.S.Birchal Ethics/Bioethics and Anthropological Fieldwork; A.L.Caratini PART II: ADMIXTURE MAPPING AND GENOMICS IN SOUTH AMERICA AND BEYOND Admixture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349293059
• ISBN13: 9781349293056
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"