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. Are human individual genomes mosaics made up of different ancestries?
How do such diagrams relate to imperial and post- colonial practices and ideologies but also to liberal and humanist concerns?
Dienste wie 23andMe und Ancestry. Ist es aber wahr, dass in unseren Genomen steht, wer wir sind und woher wir kommen? Unsere Interpretation von Gensequenzen ist, wie auch unsere Interpretation anderer historischer Quellen, unweigerlich eine Geschichte, die mit politischen und moralischen Werten beladen ist. Rezensionen finden Sie u. Marianne Sommer unravels a riveting tale about a set of ancient human bones and their curious afterlife as a scientific object.
When the ochre-stained bones were unearthed in a Welsh cave in , they inspired unsettling questions regarding their origin. Their discoverer, William Buckland, declared the remains to be Post-Diluvian, possibly those of a taxman murdered by smugglers. Recently, an interdisciplinary team excavated the cave and reinterpreted its contents. Rather, the Red Lady, now a shaman and icon of Welsh ancient history, continues to be implicated in questions of scientific and political authority.
The biography of the Red Lady reflects the personal, professional, and national ambitions of those who studied her and echoes the era in which the research was conducted. In Bones and Ochre , Sommer reveals how paleoanthropology has emerged as an international, interdisciplinary, modern science.
