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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Sounding Life, Water, Sound
- CHAPTER 1 � What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies
- CHAPTER 2 � Life Forms: A Keyword Entry (with Sophia Roosth)
- CHAPTER 3 ã€?â?? An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater
- CHAPTER 4 ã€?â?? Cetology Now: Formatting the Twenty-First-Century Whale
- CHAPTER 5 ã€?â?? How Like a Reef: Figuring Coral, 1839â€?2010
- CHAPTER 6 � Homo microbis: Species, Race, Sex, and the Human Microbiome
- CHAPTER 7 ã€? The Signature of Life: Designing the Astrobiological ImaginationCHAPTER 8 â?? Nature/Culture/Seawater: Theory Machines, Anthropology, Oceanization
- CHAPTER 9 â?? Time and the Tsunami: Indian Ocean, 2004
- CHAPTER 10 â?? From Spaceship Earth to Google Ocean: Planetary Icons, Indexes, and Infrastructures
- CHAPTER 11 â??â?? Underwater Music: Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science
- CHAPTER 12 â??â?? Seashell Sound
- CHAPTER 13 â?? Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies (with Michele Friedner)
- CHAPTER 14 â?? Chimeric Sensing
- Life, Water, Sound ResoundingAcknowledgments
- Notes
- Index