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Autore |
Bamford Sandra C. <1962-> |
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Titolo |
Biology unmoored : Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology / / Sandra Bamford |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2007 |
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©2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-35837-5 |
9786612358371 |
0-520-93947-6 |
1-4337-0138-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) - Ethnobiology |
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) - Agriculture |
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) - Psychology |
Human body - Social aspects - Papua New Guinea - Gulf Province |
Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Papua New Guinea - Gulf Province |
Ethnobiology - Papua New Guinea - Gulf Province |
Biotechnology |
Genetic engineering |
Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-218) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: conceptual frameworks -- Cultural landscapes -- Insubstantial identities -- Embodiments of detachment -- (Im) mortal undertakings -- Conceiving global identities -- Conclusion: conceptual displacements. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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