Elise K. Burton
Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity
Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity
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The Middle East has a significant role in the history of genetic science, with technological breakthroughs in human genetics coinciding with the birth of modern Middle Eastern nation-states. Elise K. Burton's book "Genetic Crossroads" explores the field expeditions and hospital surveys that scrutinized the bodies of tribal nomads and religious minorities, revealing the deeper past of human evolution. These studies were used to create territorial claims and national origin myths, which are still the foundations of international scientific interest in Middle Eastern populations today.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 26 January 2021
Publisher: Stanford University Press
The Middle East has played a significant role in the history of genetic science. In the early 20th century, technological advancements in human genetics coincided with the formation of modern Middle Eastern nation-states that claimed the region's ancient history, as a cradle of civilizations and a crossroads of humankind, was preserved in the bones and blood of their citizens. Elise K. Burton, through letters and publications from the 1920s to the present, follows field expeditions and hospital surveys that examined the bodies of tribal nomads and religious minorities. These studies, according to geneticists, not only detect the living descendants of biblical civilizations but also reveal the deeper past of human evolution.
Genetic Crossroads is an unparalleled history of human genetics in the Middle East, spanning from its roots in colonial anthropology and medicine to recent genome sequencing projects. It sheds light on how scientists from Turkey to Yemen, Egypt to Iran, have transformed genetic data into territorial claims and national origin myths. Burton demonstrates 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.
Weight: 606g
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781503614567
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