Biomapping indigenous peoples : : towards an understanding of the issues / / edited by Susanne Berthier-Foglar, Sheila Collingwood-Whittick and Sandrine Tolazzi.

• Superior document: Cross/cultures ; 151
• TeilnehmendeR: Berthier-Foglar, Susanne, 1953-; Collingwood-Whittick, Sheila.; Tolazzi, Sandrine.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi.; ©2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures 151.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (460 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Where do our distant ancestors come from, and which routes did they travel around the globe as hunter–gatherers in prehistoric times? Genomics provides a fascinating insight into these questions and unlocks a mass of information carried by strands of DNA in each cell of the human body. For Indigenou...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Human Genomics and the Indigenous / Susanne Berthier–Foglar
• Indigenous Peoples and Western Science / Sheila Collingwood–Whittick
• Reconstruction of Indigenous Identities in the Twentieth Century / Sandrine Tolazzi
• Genetic Blood Testing of Native Americans in the USA / Renate Bartl
• Indigenous Peoples: Attempts to Define / Ulia Popova–Gosart
• Screening Indigenous Peoples’ Genes: The End of Racism, or Postmodern Bio-Imperialism / Frank Kressing
• No Matter How White or Black the Skin, How Pure the Blood: Cherokee Identity and the 2007 Vote / Séverine Gauthier–Labourot
• Tribal Communities and Genetic Research: Concerns and Expectations / Marie–Claude Strigler
• The Geneticization of Ethnicity and Ethnicization of Biomedicine: On the “Taiwan Bio-Bank” / Yu–Yueh Tsai
• Genome Survivance / Gerald Vizenor
• The Edge of Extinction: Ethnic Survival Among the Yukaghirs of Northern Yakutia / Jarosław Derlicki
• Genetic Signatures of Australia’s First Peoples Survive Recent History / Sheila Van Holst Pellekaan
• Nutrition and the Indigenous Body: A Genetic Concept of Food / Andrea Zittlau
• Indigenous Opposition to Genetics Research: Views from Aboriginal Australia / Sheila Collingwood–Whittick
• Disturbing Pasts and Promising Futures: The Politics of Indigenous Genetic Research in Australia / Emma Kowal
• Difficult Conversations: Talking About Indigenous Genetic Health Research in Australia / Emma Kowal and Ian Anderson
• Travelling Bones: The Repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Remains / Matthew Rimmer
• Material Legacies: Indigenous Remains and Contested Values in UK Museum Collections / Lisa O’Sullivan
• Aboriginal Claims: DNA Ancestry Testing and Changing Concepts of Indigeneity / Natasha Golbeck and Wendy D. Roth
• Notes on Contributors and Editors
• Index.