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Sounding the Limits of Life : Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond.
What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists-biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers-are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Princeton studies in culture and technology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists-biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers-are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social. In the age of synthetic biology, rising sea levels, and new technologies of listening, these phenomena stretch toward their conceptual snapping points, breaching the boundaries between the natural, cultural, and virtual. Through examinations of the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (325) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 140087386X 9781400873869 9780691164809 0691164800 |