{"product_id":"genetic-crossroads-elise-k-burton-9781503614567","title":"Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic science. Early in the twentieth century, technological breakthroughs in human genetics coincided with the birth of modern Middle Eastern nation-states, who proclaimed that the region's ancient history--as a cradle of civilizations and crossroads of humankind--was preserved in the bones and blood of their citizens. Using letters and publications from the 1920s to the present, Elise K. Burton follows the field expeditions and hospital surveys that scrutinized the bodies of tribal nomads and religious minorities. These studies, geneticists claim, not only detect the living descendants of biblical civilizations but also reveal the deeper past of human evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGenetic Crossroads\u003c\/i\u003e is an unprecedented history of human genetics in the Middle East, from its roots in colonial anthropology and medicine to recent genome sequencing projects. It illuminates how scientists from Turkey to Yemen, Egypt to Iran, transformed genetic data into territorial claims and national origin myths. Burton shows why such nationalist appropriations of genetics are not local or temporary aberrations, but rather the enduring foundations of international scientific interest in Middle Eastern populations to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elise K. Burton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503614565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503614567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.10d","brand":"Elise K. Burton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991480500479,"sku":"9781503614567","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8ce4f688-b7e5-4542-a393-2eb0108dcdf2.jpg?v=1683310547","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/genetic-crossroads-elise-k-burton-9781503614567","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}