Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and Science Beyond the Two-Culture Divide

by Alan H. Goodman and Frederic Susan Schick

Book Overview

The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious--or more fraught with paradox--than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive response, and a welcome intervention, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to conduct an interdisciplinary dialogue that provokes and instructs even as it bridges the science/culture divide. Individual essays address issues raised...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520237927
• ISBN13: 9780520237926
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"