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Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA

Edited by Daniel Strand, Anna Kallen, Charlotte Mulcare
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The MIT Press
On sale Jul 02, 2024 | 232 Pages | 9780262378772
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The first comprehensive critical analysis of the practices and consequences of ancient DNA research.

This edited collection, Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA, presents a critical enquiry into the much-hyped “ancient DNA revolution” in archaeology. Offering the first comprehensive and in-depth scholarly analysis of the practices and effects of archaeogenetics, editors Daniel Strand, Anna Källén, and Charlotte Mulcare, along with other renowned scholars from Europe and the United States, address a host of questions, such as: What happens with our understanding of the past when archaeology is married to genetic science? What cultural forms and historical narratives are generated by ancient DNA (aDNA) research, and what energies could they unleash?

Taking a multidisciplinary and multisite approach to the topic, these essays offer important insights into the epistemological, ethical, and political consequences around and beyond the scientific analysis of aDNA. As such, Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA provides a timely and much-needed critical engagement with the rapidly growing field of aDNA research—a field that, while already having a notable impact on how we view the past in research, museums, and popular media—had not yet been subject to thorough critical scrutiny.

Contributors
Ruth Amstutz, Chip Colwell, Magnus Fiskesjö, K. Ann Horsburgh, Anna Källén, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Amade M’charek, Charlotte Mulcare, Andreas Nyblom, Venla Oikkonen, Mélanie Pruvost, Marianne Sommer, Daniel Strand
Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA: An Introduction
Daniel Strand and Anna Källén
1. Gained in Translation: Interdisciplinary Challenges in Ancient DNA
Charlotte Mulcare and Mélanie Pruvost
2. Diagrams of Human Genetic Kinship and Diversity: From the Tree to the Mosaic and the Network? 
Marianne Sommer and Ruth Amstutz
3. Past Pathogens and Precarious Futures 
Venla Oikkonen
4. Twisting Strings: Hopi Ancestors and Ancient DNA
Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa and Chip Colwell
5. Whitewashing the Neanderthal: Doing Time with Ancient DNA
Amade M’charek
6. The Lagertha Complex: Archaeogenomics and the Viking Stage
Andreas Nyblom
7. Ancient DNA and the Politics of Ethnicity in Neo-Nationalist China
Magnus Fiskesjö

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The first comprehensive critical analysis of the practices and consequences of ancient DNA research.

This edited collection, Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA, presents a critical enquiry into the much-hyped “ancient DNA revolution” in archaeology. Offering the first comprehensive and in-depth scholarly analysis of the practices and effects of archaeogenetics, editors Daniel Strand, Anna Källén, and Charlotte Mulcare, along with other renowned scholars from Europe and the United States, address a host of questions, such as: What happens with our understanding of the past when archaeology is married to genetic science? What cultural forms and historical narratives are generated by ancient DNA (aDNA) research, and what energies could they unleash?

Taking a multidisciplinary and multisite approach to the topic, these essays offer important insights into the epistemological, ethical, and political consequences around and beyond the scientific analysis of aDNA. As such, Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA provides a timely and much-needed critical engagement with the rapidly growing field of aDNA research—a field that, while already having a notable impact on how we view the past in research, museums, and popular media—had not yet been subject to thorough critical scrutiny.

Contributors
Ruth Amstutz, Chip Colwell, Magnus Fiskesjö, K. Ann Horsburgh, Anna Källén, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Amade M’charek, Charlotte Mulcare, Andreas Nyblom, Venla Oikkonen, Mélanie Pruvost, Marianne Sommer, Daniel Strand

Table of Contents

Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA: An Introduction
Daniel Strand and Anna Källén
1. Gained in Translation: Interdisciplinary Challenges in Ancient DNA
Charlotte Mulcare and Mélanie Pruvost
2. Diagrams of Human Genetic Kinship and Diversity: From the Tree to the Mosaic and the Network? 
Marianne Sommer and Ruth Amstutz
3. Past Pathogens and Precarious Futures 
Venla Oikkonen
4. Twisting Strings: Hopi Ancestors and Ancient DNA
Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa and Chip Colwell
5. Whitewashing the Neanderthal: Doing Time with Ancient DNA
Amade M’charek
6. The Lagertha Complex: Archaeogenomics and the Viking Stage
Andreas Nyblom
7. Ancient DNA and the Politics of Ethnicity in Neo-Nationalist China
Magnus Fiskesjö

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