European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology by Carles Salazar, Jeanette Edwards (Hardcover, 2009)

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How significant are biogenetic links?. Why is genetically modified food an issue?. Are ‘genes’ and ‘blood’ interchangeable?. It has been argued that the recent prominence of genetic science and genetic technologies has resulted in a ‘geneticization’ of social life; the ethnographic examples presented here do show shifts occurring in notions of ‘nature’ and of what is ‘natural’.