Genetic Crossroads
The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Stanford University Press
- Date of Publication 26 January 2021
- ISBN 9781503614567
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 566 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 halftones, 3 maps 140
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Long description:
The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic science. Early in the twentieth century, technological breakthroughs in human genetics coincided with the birth of modern Middle Eastern nation-states, who proclaimed that the region's ancient history—as a cradle of civilizations and crossroads of humankind—was preserved in the bones and blood of their citizens. Using letters and publications from the 1920s to the present, Elise K. Burton follows the field expeditions and hospital surveys that scrutinized the bodies of tribal nomads and religious minorities. These studies, geneticists claim, not only detect the living descendants of biblical civilizations but also reveal the deeper past of human evolution.
Genetic Crossroads is an unprecedented history of human genetics in the Middle East, from its roots in colonial anthropology and medicine to recent genome sequencing projects. It illuminates how scientists from Turkey to Yemen, Egypt to Iran, transformed genetic data into territorial claims and national origin myths. Burton shows why such nationalist appropriations of genetics are not local or temporary aberrations, but rather the enduring foundations of international scientific interest in Middle Eastern populations to this day.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: An Uneasy Inheritance
1. Drastic Measurements
2. Truth Serum
3. The Traffic in Blood
4. Sickling Sociologies
5. Genes Against Beans
6. Collection Agents
7. Domesticating Diversity
Conclusion: Genomes Without Borders?
