Race, Ethnicity and Nation: Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics

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Peter Wade
Berghahn Books, 2009 - 200 pages
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About the author (2009)

Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His publications include Blackness and Race Mixture (1993), Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (1997), Music, Race and Nation: Música Tropical in Colombia (2000), Race, Nature and Culture: An Anthropological Perspective (2002). His current research focuses on issues of racial identity, embodiment and new genetic and information technologies.

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