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On the linkage relations of the genes for allergic disease and the genes determining the blood groups, MN types and eye colour in man / by I. Zieve, Alexander S. Wiener, and Joseph H. Fries.

<p>"This book, Genetics, Mass Media and Identity, looks at the effect of genetic research on the identity of the populations studied and is the first monograph devoted to the subject. The specific genetic research treated here was conducted in the 1990s on two quite different communities: the Lemba of southern Africa and the Bene Israel of western India. The genetic research had as its principal aim the solution of the mystery of the origin of the two groups. With the dissemination of the results of the tests in the mass media the Lemba became famous overnight as DNA analysis appeared to support their ambiguous historical traditions.</p>
<p>These traditions which had hitherto been rejected by mainstream Jewish communities maintain that they are Jewish and came from a town called Sena 'somewhere in the far north'. In the case of the Bene Israel, another somewhat ambiguous Jewish group, the results were interpreted in a way which is embedded in local Indian traditions. This engaging and accessible study is based on extensive interviews with the members of the two communities and their neighbours and an analysis of a wide range of the mass media material devoted to them."--BOOK JACKET.</p>

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On the linkage relations of the genes for allergic disease and the genes determining the blood groups, MN types and eye colour in man / by I. Zieve, Alexander S. Wiener, and Joseph H. Fries.

Genetics, mass media and identity : a case study of the genetic research on the Lemba and Bene Israel / Tudor Parfitt and Yulia Egorova.

Heredity of the blood groups / by Alexander S. Wiener and Irving B. Wexler.

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On the linkage relations of the genes for allergic disease and the genes determining the blood groups, MN types and eye colour in man / by I. Zieve, Alexander S. Wiener, and Joseph H. Fries.

Genetics, mass media and identity : a case study of the genetic research on the Lemba and Bene Israel / Tudor Parfitt and Yulia Egorova.

Heredity of the blood groups / by Alexander S. Wiener and Irving B. Wexler.

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