UID:
almahu_9949891152402882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 362 pages) :
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92 colour illustrations.
ISBN:
9781805112624
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9781805112631
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9781805112655
Content:
"This is the first book that engages with the history of diagrams in physical, evolutionary, and genetic anthropology. Since their establishment as scientific tools for classification in the eighteenth century, diagrams have been used to determine but also to deny kinship between human groups. In nineteenth-century craniometry, they were omnipresent in attempts to standardize measurements on skulls for hierarchical categorization. In particular the 'human family tree' was central for evolutionary understandings of human diversity, being used on both sides of debates about whether humans constitute different species well into the twentieth century. With recent advances in (ancient) DNA analyses, the tree diagram has become more contested than ever-does human relatedness take the shape of a network? Are human individual genomes mosaics made up of different ancestries? Sommer examines the epistemic and political role of these visual representations in the history of 'race' as an anthropological category. How do such diagrams relate to imperial and (post-)colonial practices and ideologies but also to liberal and humanist concerns? The Diagrammatics of 'Race' concentrates on Western projects from the late 1700s into the present to diagrammatically define humanity, subdividing and ordering it, including the concomitant endeavors to acquire representative samples-bones, blood, or DNA-from all over the world. Contributing to the 'diagrammatic turn' in the humanities and social sciences, it reveals connections between diagrams in anthropology and other visual traditions, including in religion, linguistics, biology, genealogy, breeding, and eugenics."--Publisher's website.
Note:
Available through Open Book Publishers.
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Introduction / Marianne Sommer -- Part I. Building a Diagrammatics of 'Race' in the Emerging Field of Anthropology / Marianne Sommer -- 1. Esthetics, Diagrammatics, and Metrics: The Beginnings of Physical Anthropology / Marianne Sommer -- 2. Samuel George Morton and His (Paper) Skulls / Marianne Sommer -- 3. Kinship Denied and Acknowledged / Marianne Sommer -- 4. Prichard's Third Edition of Researches (1846-47) and Nott's and Gliddon's Types of Mankind (1854) / Marianne Sommer -- 5. Codifying a Diagrammatics of 'Race'/ Marianne Sommer -- Part II. Maps, Scales, and Trees as (Intertwined) Diagrams of Human Genealogy and Evolution / Marianne Sommer -- 6. The First Tree of the Human 'Races': Mappa Mundi, Chain of Being, and Tree of Life / Marianne Sommer -- Map, Scale, and Tree in Natural History / Marianne Sommer -- 8. Map, Scale, and Tree in Darwin, Haeckel and Co.: The Genealogy of the Human Species / Marianne Sommer -- 9. Map, Scale, and Tree in Darwin, Haeckel and Co.: The Genealogy of the Human 'Races' / Marianne Sommer -- 10. About Treeing... / Marianne Sommer -- Part III. Radicalizing versus Deconstructing the Family Tree of the Human 'Races' / Marianne Sommer -- 11. Denying Even the Tree-Structured Human Kinship / Marianne Sommer -- 12. Meandering Rivers and Synthetic Networks against Polygenism / Marianne Sommer -- 13. The Reaffirmation of the Polygenist 'Tree' / Marianne Sommer -- 14. Cable or Tangled Skein? / Marianne Sommer -- 15. Missing Links to the Eugenic Pedigrees / Marianne Sommer -- Part IV. The Tree, the Map, the Mosaic, and the Network in Genetic Anthropology / Marianne Sommer -- 16. The History, Geography, and Politics of Human Genes / Marianne Sommer -- 17. Genetic Trees, Admixture, and Mosaics / Marianne Sommer -- 18. Gene Flow and Ancient DNA: Trees with Connecting Branches / Marianne Sommer -- 19. The (Diagrammatic) Narratives of Genetic Revolutions / Marianne Sommer -- 20. Deconstructing the Tree Diagram to a Mess - or at least a Net / Marianne Sommer -- Postscript / Marianne Sommer.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
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