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Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science | Kim Tallbear
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Who is a Native American? And who gets to decide? From genealogists searching online for their ancestors to fortune hunters hoping for a slice of casino profits from wealthy tribes, the answers to these seemingly straightforward questions have profound ramifications. The rise of DNA testing has further complicated the issues and raised the stakes.In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful and problematic scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of concepts that entangles genetic information in a web of family relations, reservation histories, tribal rules, and government regulations. At a larger level, TallBear asserts, the markers that are identified and applied to specific groups such as Native American tribes bear the imprints of the cultural, racial, ethnic, national, and even tribal misinterpretations of the humans who study them.TallBear notes that ideas about racial science, which informed white definitions of tribes in the nineteenth century, are unfortunately being revived in twenty-first-century laboratories. Because today s science seems so compelling, increasing numbers of Native Americans have begun to believe their own metaphors: in our blood is giving way to in our DNA. This rhetorical drift, she argues, has significant consequences, and ultimately she shows how Native American claims to land, resources, and sovereignty that have taken generations to ratify may be seriously and permanently undermined. "
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wanderinglynn
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I was going to resist all the cyber Monday deals. I failed. 😆 4 from the Audible sale & 5 from the Libro.fm sale.

The 3 on the right I‘ve read before but wanted to listen to the audio version.

Twainy Scalzi! I read Agent to the Stars first and Wil Wheaton is the PERFECT narrator. He is unequalled in his sarcasm. Loved both those audiobooks … but I like weird. 😆❤️ 2y
Amandajoy There was a Libro.fm sale? 😑 2y
wanderinglynn @AmandaJoy1 yes. I think it‘s still going on. 2y
wanderinglynn @Twainy I love Scalzi. I‘ve read both, but wanted the audiobooks because I enjoy listening to Wheaton. 👍🏻 (edited) 2y
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DieAReader
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DNFing at 12% as it‘s way over my head scientifically (& as far my information retention right now).

This shouldn‘t detract others (much more knowledgeable than myself) from picking it up.

Susanita This topic was addressed in a (perhaps) more accessible way in one section of 3y
DieAReader @Susanita Thanks so much! Added to my stack😁📚 3y
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tournevis
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Left the conference mid-afternoon to get home before the weather gets especially bad. The conference was very good, on decolonizing sexuality and Indigenous embodiement. Learned a lot.

#trainlife

BookishMarginalia Safe travels! 5y
tournevis @BookishMarginalia I'm on a train, so I'm certainly safer than by bus or car. 5y
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Jee_HookedOnBookz Stay safe! 5y
tournevis @Jee_HookedOnBookz Thx, doing so! 😘 5y
Jee_HookedOnBookz @tournevis 😘❤️🤗 5y
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tournevis
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Just leaving this here for now.