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Lessons from History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2009

Jonathan Marks
Jonathan Marks
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Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina–Charlotte. Email: [email protected] Web: http://personal.uncc.edu/jmarks
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Anthropological genetics is an oddly liminal field—not quite anthropology, yet not quite genetics either. Anthropologists are trained to be attuned to the people they work with; without the goodwill of its objects, the profession cannot exist—but one does not have to secure the goodwill of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, to study its DNA haplotypes in depth. Geneticists, however, are more prestigious and better funded—and what scientist doesn't aspire to that?

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International Journal of Cultural Property , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , May 2009 , pp. 199 - 204
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Copyright © International Cultural Property Society 2009

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