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Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.
Carlos López Beltrán is a historian of science and senior researcher in the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Eduardo Restrepo is a social anthropologist working in the Department of Cultural Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá.
Ricardo Ventura Santos is an anthropologist and senior researcher at the National School of Public Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro and Associate Professor of Anthropology with the National Museum at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Genomics, Race Mixture, and Nation in Latin America / Peter Wade, Carlos López Beltrán, Eduardo Restrepo, and Ricardo Ventura Santos
Part I. History and Context
1. From Degeneration to Meeting Point: Historical Views on Race, Mixture, and the Biological Diversity of the Brazilian Population / Ricardo Ventura Santos, Michael Kent, and Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto
2. Nation and Difference in the Genetic Imagination of Colombia / Eduardo Restrepo, Ernesto Schwartz-Marín, and Roosbelinda Cádenas
3. Negotiating the Mexican Mestizo: On the Possibility of a National Genomics / Carlos López Beltrán, Vivette García Deister, and Mariana Rios Sandoval
Part II. Laboratory Case Studies
4. "The Charrua Are Alive": The Genetic Resurrection of an Extinct Indigenous Population in Southern Brazil / Michael Kent and Ricardo Ventura Santos
5. The Travels of Humans, Categories, and Other Genetic Products: A Case Study of the Practice of Population Genetics in Colombia / María Fernanda Olarte Sierra and Adriana Díaz del Castillo H.
6. Laboratory Life of the Mexican Mestizo / Vivette García Deister
7. Social Categories and Laboratory Practices in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico: A Comparative Overview / Peter Wade, Vivette García Deister, Michael Kent, and María Fernanda Olarte Sierra
Conclusion: Race, Multiculturalism, and Genomics in Latin America / Peter Wade
Appendix; Methods and Contexts
References
Contributors
Index
About the author
Peter Wade, Carlos López Beltrán, Eduardo Restrepo and Ricardo Ventura Santos, eds.
Summary
Based on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, this title explores how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research. It involves relations between European men and indigenous or African women, gender is a key factor in Latin American genomics and the analyses in this book.
