Genealogies, Genomes, and Histories in the Pacific - 9783031454516

Name: Genealogies, Genomes, and Histories in the Pacific - 9783031454516
Brand: Springer International Publishing AG

Springer International Publishing AG

Genealogies, Genomes, and Histories in the PacificGenetic Drift\nAuthor(s): Matt K. Matsuda\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031454516, 978-3031454516\nSynopsis\nThis book explores a panorama of historical studies, focused on the historical tensions between genealogical knowledge and well-known Pacific Islander engagements with genomic research in a postwar era of simultaneous decolonization and Big Science. These include connected examinations of ancient voyaging reconstruction and migration routes, warrior genes, a noted life-form patent case, questions of genetic engineering and biopiracy, the repatriation of ancestral remains, legacies of nuclear testing, and conflicts with the Human Genome Diversity Project in Oceania. It also considers the persistence of eugenics and race thinking within blood quanta and dispossession histories and how other histories are being written. Many of these subj.