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Author Bamford, Sandra C., 1962-

Title Biology unmoored : Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology / Sandra Bamford.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-218) and index.
Contents Introduction: conceptual frameworks -- Cultural landscapes -- Insubstantial identities -- Embodiments of detachment -- (Im) mortal undertakings -- Conceiving global identities -- Conclusion: conceptual displacements.
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 techn.
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Subject Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Ethnobiology.
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people)
Ethnobiology.
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Agriculture.
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Agriculture.
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Psychology.
Psychology.
Human body -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea -- Gulf Province.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Papua New Guinea -- Gulf Province.
Ethnoecology -- Papua New Guinea -- Gulf Province.
Ethnoecology.
Ethnobiology -- Papua New Guinea -- Gulf Province.
Biotechnology.
Biotechnology.
Genetic engineering.
Genetic engineering.
Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs.
Indexed Term Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bamford, Sandra C., 1962- Biology unmoored. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2006009333
ISBN 9780520939479 (electronic book)
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9780520247123 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
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