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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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 techn. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-218) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520939479 0520939476 1433701383 9781433701382 1282358375 9781282358379 9786612358371 6612358378 |