" Ordinary Genomes is a thoughtful, nuanced book. Among its many virtues are the clarity of Karen-Sue Taussig's prose and her admirably fair and sympathetic presentation and analysis of the geneticists. With her close and careful readings of geneticists at work in the multiple spaces of the laboratory, the field, and the clinic, we get an all too rare ethnographic look at genetics-in-practice. Here we have fleshed out, complex figures who negotiate diagnoses, reflect on their own practices and knowledge, and allow us to ...
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" Ordinary Genomes is a thoughtful, nuanced book. Among its many virtues are the clarity of Karen-Sue Taussig's prose and her admirably fair and sympathetic presentation and analysis of the geneticists. With her close and careful readings of geneticists at work in the multiple spaces of the laboratory, the field, and the clinic, we get an all too rare ethnographic look at genetics-in-practice. Here we have fleshed out, complex figures who negotiate diagnoses, reflect on their own practices and knowledge, and allow us to enter a professional life that is probably far different from what we might have imagined. I cannot stress enough what an important achievement this is."-- Michael Fortun , editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology
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Add this copy of Hamlet's Mill: an Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time to cart. $350.00, very good condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Macmillan.
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Very Good. Size: 9x6x1; Near fine. Hardcover and dust jacket. Jacket clipped. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xiii, 505 p., ill., 23 cm. Contradicting many current notions about cultural evolution, this exploratory book investigates the origins of human knowledge in the archaic, preliterate world."
