Introduction: Ideas in motion: Making sense of identity politics and the new genetics

Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-29

  Schramm, Katharina ^a,b   Skinner, David ^c   Rottenburg, Richard ^a,b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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