CA ✩ FORUM ON ANTHROPOLOGY IN PUBLIC Both Sides Now
نویسنده
چکیده
It is rather remarkable that a process as esoteric as the genetic modification of crops would become the subject of a global war of rhetoric. Yet for the past few years Western audiences have been bombarded with deceptive rhetoric, spin, and soundbite science portraying the wonders—or horrors—of the new technology. Books and fullpage newspaper advertisements warn of a wrecked environment and food insecurity; children are brought to demonstrations dressed as monarch butterflies, swooning at the arrival of “GM (Genetically Modified) Corn Man.” Meanwhile, organizations pour fortunes into television commercials and newspaper ads showing fields of healthy grain, smiling farmers, and poor children restored to health through genetically modified crops; the
منابع مشابه
CA✩ FORUM ON ANTHROPOLOGY IN PUBLIC Perspectives on Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
متن کامل
Ca✩ Forum on Anthropology in Public
On Human Rights Day 1992, the United Nations proclaimed an International Year of the World’s Indigenous People. A Decade for Indigenous Peoples was subsequently launched, to run from 1995 to 2004, and a Forum of Indigenous Peoples established. The inaugural meeting of the Forum, held in Geneva in 1996, was unfortunately disrupted by gate-crashers. A self-styled delegation of South African Boers...
متن کاملGender and Computer-Mediated Communication: Emoticons in a Digital Forum in Persian
This study aimed to gain an insight into whether computer-mediated communication (CMC) in the form of a digital forum can reflect gendered discursive practices. A great deal of research has now established that computer-mediated interactions embody gendered differences in the use of emoticons, but few studies have examined the potential effect of the gender of the emoticon-receiver on the frequ...
متن کاملEffects of Calcium Concentrations in Medium on Microtuberization of Potato (Solanum tuberosumL.)
It is now widely accepted that calcium (Ca) deficiency is linked to potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tuber disorders and improved tuber health is expected through increased Ca availability. The purpose of this study was to optimize the Ca concentration in Murashige-Skoog (MS) basal medium for microtuber production and determine microtuber mineral composition, especially Ca content. The response of...
متن کاملCA✩ FORUM ON ANTHROPOLOGY IN PUBLIC Genes and Cultures
A central theme of the flood of literature in recent years in “evolutionary psychology” and “behavioral genetics” is that much or even most human behavior has been programmed into the human genome by natural selection. We show that this conclusion is without basis. Evolutionary psychology is a series of “just-so” stories rooted in part in the erroneous notion that human beings during the Pleist...
متن کامل