Re-thinking naturecultureAnthropology and the new genetics
Re-thinking naturecultureAnthropology and the new genetics
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重新思考自然文化人类学和新遗传学
DOI：
10.1177/1463499603003001752
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
S. Franklin
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作者：
S. Franklin
本文探讨了“新遗传学”对人类学的意义，即作为表达、联系和关系的问题，或作为差异的产生。使用玛丽莲·斯特拉特福的模型的merographic连接，并借鉴最近的民族志工作的新遗传学，包括我自己的，什么样的连接和关系正在锻造通过新兴形式的遗传信息的问题是批判性的探索经验和理论。特别是，遗传“差距”的主题，“客观”的遗传事实和社会伪造的身份和分类，提供了机会，以对比不同的人种学和理论模型的社会意义的DNA。我认为，遗传信息总是部分的方式--在这两种意义上，已经被假定和总是不完整的--对遗传联系的形成和遗传关系的理解产生了影响。从基因中提取“清晰”的生物信息的愿望与指导和改变基因的愿望相冲突，这再次概括了英国亲属关系思想核心的一个熟悉的混合体--我们的生物学既是制造的，也是培育的。
This article explores the implications of 'the new genetics' for anthropology as questions of articulation, connection, and relation ndash; or as the production of difference. Using Marilyn Strathern's model of merographic connection, and drawing on recent ethnographic work on the new genetics, including my own, the question of what kinds of connections and relations are being forged through emergent forms of genetic information is critically explored both empirically and theoretically. In particular, the theme of a genetic 'gap', between 'objective' genetic facts and socially-forged identities and categorizations, provides the occasion to contrast different ethnographic and theoretical models of the social meaning of DNA. I argue that the ways in which genetic information is always partial - in both senses, of being already invested with presumptions and always incomplete - have consequences for how genetic connections are formed, and genetic relationships are understood. The desire to extract 'clear' biological messages from genes conflicts with the desire to instruct, and alter, them, recapitulating a familiar hybridity at the heart of English kinship thinking - that our biology is both made and bred.