Biology Unmoored : Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bamford, Sandra (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2007]
Temas:
Biotechnology.
Ethnobiology > Papua New Guinea > Gulf Province.
Ethnoecology > Papua New Guinea > Gulf Province.
Genetic engineering.
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) > Agriculture.
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) > Ethnobiology.
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) > Psychology.
Human body > Social aspects > Papua New Guinea > Gulf Province.
Indigenous peoples > Ecology > Papua New Guinea > Gulf Province.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
assisted reproductive technologies.
biodiversity.
biologists.
biology.
biotechnology.
cloning.
environmental impacts.
ethnographers.
ethnographic research.
genetically modified organisms.
gmos.
human condition.
human genome mapping.
human impact.
human relationships.
melanesia.
natural world.
nonfiction.
organic life.
papua new guinea.
physiological.
reproduction.
reproductive technologies.
sex and culture.
sexual reproduction.
social science.
western ideas.
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Sumario: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).
Descripción Física:1 online resource (245 p.)
ISBN:9780520939479
9783110690422
Acceso:restricted access

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