Kim TallBear

‘There is no DNA test to prove you’re Native American’

By |2017-10-01T22:11:10-06:00February 21st, 2014|Categories: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TECHNOSCIENCE, & ENVIRONMENT, Kim TallBear, Media|

Click to read In the 13 February 2014 issue of The New Scientist Linda Geddes published an interview with me:  DNA testing is changing how Native Americans think about tribal membership. Yet anthropologist Kim Tallbear warns that genetic tests are a blunt tool. She tells Linda Geddes why tribal identity is not just a [...]

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Kimberly Tallbear on First Person Radio 10/23/2013

By |2017-10-01T22:11:10-06:00October 23rd, 2013|Categories: Kim TallBear, Media|

Please join Laura Waterman Wittstock on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 as she talks with guest Kimberly M. Tallbear, Associate Professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of a new book, Native American DNA (University of Minnesota Press). In the book, Tallbear shows how DNA testing is a powerful and [...]

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Uppsala 3rd Supradisciplinary Feminist Technoscience Symposium: Feminist and indigenous intersections and approaches to technoscience

By |2017-10-01T22:11:10-06:00October 17th, 2013|Categories: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TECHNOSCIENCE, & ENVIRONMENT, Kim TallBear|

Sámi flags flying over Uppsala University! I am thrilled to be blogging from the 3rd Supradisciplinary Feminist Technoscience Symposium organized by my colleague May-Britt Öhman at Uppsala University, Sweden. The five-day symposium (Oct 14-18) is hosted by the Centre for Gender Research within Dr. Öhman's research project, Rivers, resistance and resilience: Sustainable futures in Sápmi and in [...]

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