“…Whereas the latter refers to “culture constructed on the basis of a metaphor of nature,” 29 biosociality suggests a cultural model of nature. Drawing on Rabinow, Sommer 30 has emphasized the historical and discursive aspects of the way that genetics is understood and genetic communities constituted. Analyzing the ancestral genetics business from an anthropological perspective, she concludes that “we are indeed not confronted with genetic determinism, but with an individualized, flexible, open, market- and future-oriented politics of life itself, in which biology--even biohistory--no longer equals destiny, but has become project and commodity.” 31 This implies to us, first, that people outside the community of sanctioned experts may have worthwhile ideas about how the practice of genetics should be carried out; and, second, that those same people may prove to be competent partners in the enterprise.…”