Folk taxonomy, prejudice and the human genome: Using disease as a Jewish ethnic marker

Patterns of Prejudice

Volumn 40, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 381-398

  Neulander, Judith S ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological classification; Crypto Jews; Folk taxonomy; Genetic disease; Heritable disease; Human genome; Jewish disease; New Mexican crypto Jews

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845215998     PISSN: 0031322X     EISSN: 14617331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00313220601020114     Document Type: Review

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