Population Genetics and Belonging A Cultural Analysis of Genetic Ancestry /

• Main Author: Oikkonen, Venla (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Ethnology.; Gender identity.; Culture.; Science and Technology Studies.; Cultural Anthropology.; Gender and Sexuality.; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.; Sociology of Culture.

This book explores how human population genetics has emerged as a means of imagining and enacting belonging in contemporary society. Venla Oikkonen approaches population genetics as an evolving set of technological, material, narrative and affective practices, arguing that these practices are engage...