{"id":18684,"date":"2011-12-03T18:13:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T18:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18684"},"modified":"2011-12-03T18:46:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T18:46:51","slug":"color-race-and-genomic-ancestry-in-brazil-dialogues-between-anthropology-and-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18684","title":{"rendered":"Color, Race, and Genomic Ancestry in Brazil: Dialogues between Anthropology and Genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Color, Race, and Genomic Ancestry in Brazil: Dialogues between Anthropology and Genetics<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Current Anthropology<\/a>
\nVolume 50, Number 6<\/a> (2009)
\npages 787-819
\nDOI: 10.1086\/644532<\/a><\/p>\n

Ricardo Ventura Santos<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Biological Anthropology and Public Health
\nOswaldo Cruz Foundation
\n<\/em>also Associate professor of Anthropology
\nNational Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Peter H. Fry<\/strong>, Professor
\nFederal University of Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Antropologia
\nInstituto de Filosofia e Ci\u00eancias Sociais\/UFRJ, Largo de S\u00e3o Francisco de Paula 1<\/em><\/p>\n

Simone Monteiro<\/strong>, Senior Researcher
\nOswaldo Cruz Institute<\/em><\/p>\n

Marcos Chor Maio<\/strong>, Senior Researcher
\nHouse of Oswaldo Cruz
\nOswaldo Cruz Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Carlos Rodrigues<\/strong>, Professor
\nFluminense Federal University
\n<\/em>also Associate Professor
\nCatholic University<\/em><\/p>\n

Luciana Bastos-Rodrigues<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Biochemistry and Immunology at the Institute of Biological Sciences
\nFederal University of Minas Gerais<\/em><\/p>\n

S\u00e9rgio D. J. Pena<\/strong>, Professor of Biochemistry and Immunology
\nInstitute of Biological Sciences
\nFederal University of Minas Gerais<\/em><\/p>\n

In the contemporary world, \u201crace\u201d narratives are so multifaceted that at times, different views of the concept appear mutually incompatible. In recent decades biologists, especially geneticists, have repeatedly stated that the notion of race does not apply to the human species. On the other hand, social scientists claim that race is highly significant in cultural, historical, and socioeconomic terms because it molds everyday social relations and because it is a powerful motivator for social and political movements based on race differences. In this paper we present the results of an interdisciplinary research project incorporating approaches from genetics and anthropology. Our objective is to explore the interface between information about biology\/genetics and perceptions about color\/race in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We argue that the data and interpretation of our research resonate far beyond the local level, stimulating discussion about methodological, theoretical, and political issues of wider national and international relevance. Topics addressed include the complex terminology of color\/race classification in Brazil, perceptions about ancestry in the context of ideologies of Brazilian national identity, and the relationship between genetic information about the Brazilian population and a sociopolitical agenda that turns on questions of race and racism.<\/p>\n

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Color, Race, and Genomic Ancestry in Brazil: Dialogues between Anthropology and Genetics Current Anthropology Volume 50, Number 6 (2009) pages 787-819 DOI: 10.1086\/644532 Ricardo Ventura Santos, Professor of Biological Anthropology and Public Health Oswaldo Cruz Foundation also Associate professor of Anthropology National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Peter H. Fry, Professor Federal University of Rio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,21,2039,8],"tags":[8511,8503,8509,8507,8504,8223,8222,8224,8501,8508,8506,8487,8486,6727,8510,8505,8502],"class_list":["post-18684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-current-anthropology","tag-jose-c-rodrigues","tag-jose-carlos-rodrigues","tag-jose-rodrigues","tag-luciana-bastos-rodrigues","tag-marcos-c-maio","tag-marcos-chor-maio","tag-marcos-maio","tag-peter-fry","tag-peter-h-fry","tag-ricardo-santos","tag-ricardo-v-santos","tag-ricardo-ventura-santos","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-sergio-d-j-pena","tag-sergio-pena","tag-simone-monteiro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}