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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 abs...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Princeton studies in culture and technology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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. An archaeology of artifical life, underwater
- Chapter 4. Cetology now : formatting the twenty-first-century whale
- Chapter 5. How like a reef : figuring coral, 1839-2010
- Chapter 6. Homo microbis : species, race, sex and the human microbiome
- Chapter 7. The signature of life : designing the astrobiological imagination
- Chapter 8. Nature/culture/seawater : theory machines, anthropology, oceanization
- Chapter 9. Time and the tsunami : Indian Ocean, 2004
- Chapter 10. From Spaceship Earth to Google Ocean : planetary icons, indexes, and infrastructures
- Chapter 11. Underwater music : tuning composition to the sounds of science
- Chapter 12. Seashell sound
- Chapter 13. Sound studies meets deaf studies / with Michele Friedner
- Chapter 14. Chimeric sensing
- Life, water, sound resounding.