Format:
1 online resource (246 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520939479
Content:
Biology Unmoored is an engaging examination of what it means to live in a world that is not structured in terms of biological thinking. Drawing upon three years of ethnographic research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Sandra Bamford describes a world in which physiological reproduction is not perceived to ground human kinship or human beings' relationship to the organic world. Bamford also exposes the ways in which Western ideas about relatedness do depend on a notion of physiological reproduction. Her innovative analysis includes a discussion of the advent of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), the mapping of the human genome, cloning, the commodification of biodiversity, and the manufacture and sale of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Conceptual Frameworks -- 1. Cultural Landscapes -- 2. Insubstantial Identities -- 3. Embodiments of Detachment -- 4. (Im)Mortal Undertakings -- 5. Conceiving Global Identities -- Conclusion: Conceptual Displacements -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520247130
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bamford, Sandra C., 1962 - Biology unmoored Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] : Univ. of California Press, 2007 ISBN 0520247124
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520247132
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520247123
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520247130
Additional Edition:
Print version Biology Unmoored : Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Papua-Neuguinea
;
Indigenes Volk
;
Sozialanthropologie
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Soziobiologie
;
Bibliografie
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