Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator’s enterprise. Over the last few years the human social…

Anthropologists argue that the growth of ‘new genetics’ has had far-reaching implications for human self-understanding, social relations and the development of biomedicine. Exploring a variety of issues including the widely-discussed…

Following centuries of debate about nature and nurture the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.