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Dolly Mixtures - The Remaking of Genealogy (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Dolly Mixtures - The Remaking of Genealogy (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book
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While the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's most famous
clone, triggered an enormous amount of discussion about human
cloning, in Dolly Mixtures the anthropologist Sarah Franklin looks
beyond that much-rehearsed controversy to some of the other reasons
why the iconic animal's birth and death were significant. Building
on the work of historians and anthropologists, Franklin reveals
Dolly as the embodiment of agricultural, scientific, social, and
commercial histories which are, in turn, bound up with national and
imperial aspirations. Dolly was the offspring of a long tradition
of animal domestication, as well as the more recent histories of
capital accumulation through selective breeding, and enhanced
national competitiveness through the control of biocapital.
Franklin traces Dolly's connections to Britain's centuries-old
sheep and wool markets (which were vital to the nation's industrial
revolution) and to Britain's export of animals to its
colonies-particularly Australia-to expand markets and produce
wealth. Moving forward in time, she explains the celebrity sheep's
links to the embryonic cell lines and global bioscientific
innovation of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first.
Franklin combines wide-ranging sources-from historical accounts of
sheep-breeding, to scientific representations of cloning by nuclear
transfer, to popular media reports of Dolly's creation and birth-as
she draws on gender and kinship theory as well as postcolonial and
science studies. She argues that there is an urgent need for more
nuanced responses to the complex intersections between the social
and the biological, intersections which are literally reshaping
reproduction and genealogy. In Dolly Mixtures, Franklin uses the
renowned sheep as an opportunity to begin developing a critical
language to identify and evaluate the reproductive possibilities
that post-Dolly biology now faces, and to look back at some of the
important historical formations that enabled and prefigured Dollys
creation.
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