Biology Unmoored Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology

Name: Biology Unmoored Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology
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ISBN: 9780520247130

ISBN-10: 0520247132

ISBN-13: 9780520247130

Edition: 2007

Authors: Sandra Bamford

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Superbly researched and masterfully written, 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 almost 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' relationships to the organic world. Using indigenous understandings as a counter-reflexive voice through which to consider recent social and technological developments in Europe and North America, Bamford exposes the ways in which Western ideas about relatedness depend on a notion of…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/20/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 245
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Conceptual Frameworks



Cultural Landscapes



Insubstantial Identities



Embodiments of Detachment



(Im)Mortal Undertakings



Conceiving Global Identities


Conclusion: Conceptual Displacements


Notes


References


Index