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@book{RefWorks:17, abstract = {{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╟╜\^{a}'¬\^{a}\_\_particularly Australia╟╜\^{a}'¬\^{a}\_\_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╟╜\^{a}'¬\^{a}\_\_from historical accounts of sheep-breeding, to scientific representations of cloning by nuclear transfer, to popular media reports of Dolly\’s creation and birth╟╜\^{a}'¬\^{a}\_\_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 Dolly\’s creation. }}, author = {Franklin, Sarah}, citeulike-article-id = {2137124}, comment = {ID: 784; Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy (A John Hope Franklin Center Book) citeulike:1426350; RP: NOT IN FILE}, keywords = {animals, biocapital, biology, biotechnology, breeding, history, human, innovation, lt, media, science, sociology, studies, time}, posted-at = {2007-12-17 15:25:48}, priority = {2}, publisher = {{Duke University Press}}, title = {Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy (A John Hope Franklin Center Book)}, year = {2007} }

TY - BOOK ID - RefWorks:17 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2137124 N2 - {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╟╜â'¬â__particularly Australia╟╜â'¬â__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╟╜â'¬â__from historical accounts of sheep-breeding, to scientific representations of cloning by nuclear transfer, to popular media reports of Dolly’s creation and birth╟╜â'¬â__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 Dolly’s creation. } TI - Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy (A John Hope Franklin Center Book) PB - {Duke University Press} KW - animals KW - biocapital KW - biology KW - biotechnology KW - breeding KW - history KW - human KW - innovation KW - lt KW - media KW - science KW - sociology KW - studies KW - time N1 - ID: 784; Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy (A John Hope Franklin Center Book) citeulike:1426350; RP: NOT IN FILE AU - Franklin, Sarah PY - 2007/// ER -