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“Anti-colonial Genomic Practice?” Learning from the Genographic Project and the Chacmool Conference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2009

Jenny Reardon
Jenny Reardon
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College 8 Faculty Services, University of California–Santa Cruz. Email: [email protected]
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I want to commend the organizers of the Chacmool Conference panel. All too often attempts to discuss the broader social and cultural dimensions of genetic studies of ancient human migrations devolve into simplistic celebrations or condemnations. It is heartening to find here an example of a conference session that managed to avoid these dangerous poles, and to grapple instead with the hard task of discerning the issues raised and not raised by genomic studies of human migrations and history. I would like to devote my commentary to exploring what might be learned from the discussions at Chacmool.

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International Journal of Cultural Property , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , May 2009 , pp. 205 - 212
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Copyright © International Cultural Property Society 2009

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