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Biology unmoored : Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology / Sandra Bamford.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bamford, Sandra C., 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people)--Ethnobiology.
- Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people).
- Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people)--Agriculture.
- Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people)--Psychology.
- Human body--Social aspects--Papua New Guinea--Gulf Province.
- Human body.
- Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Papua New Guinea--Gulf Province.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Ethnobiology--Papua New Guinea--Gulf Province.
- Ethnobiology.
- Biotechnology.
- Genetic engineering.
- Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs.
- Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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).
- Contents:
- Introduction: conceptual frameworks
- Cultural landscapes
- Insubstantial identities
- Embodiments of detachment
- (Im) mortal undertakings
- Conceiving global identities
- Conclusion: conceptual displacements.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612358371
- 9781282358379
- 1282358375
- 9780520939479
- 0520939476
- 9781433701382
- 1433701383
- OCLC:
- 476034388
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