Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and Science beyond the Two-Culture Divide - Tapa dura

The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious than in the realm of genetics. A constructive response, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to conduct a dialogue that bridges the science/culture divide.

"Genetic Nature/Culture presents an engaging, intelligent, and, above all, necessary conversation within and beyond anthropology. These essays, diverse yet always mutually engaged, move past often-assumed intellectual boundaries in innovative and principled ways. They simultaneously shape, map, and challenge our understandings of the complex common ground on which genetics, culture, and history intersect and, in so doing, help point toward a critical role for anthropology, now and in the future." Don Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

"The editors have carefully and coherently organized the book to shed light on the complex interplay of biology, culture, ideology and myth on the tangled politics’ of nature and culture in the increasingly contentious age of genetics." Dorothy Nelkin, author (with Suzanne Anker) of The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age