Cultural politics and the racial cartographics of human origins

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 204-221

  Livingstone, David N ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancestral migration; Cartography; Genetics; Human origins; Monogenism polygenism; Race; Racial politics

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; CULTURAL RELATIONS; GENETICS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MAP GENERALIZATION; MIDDLE AGES; RACE;

EID: 77951655214     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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