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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bamford, Sandra C., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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