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Biology unmoored : Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology / / Sandra Bamford



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Autore: Bamford Sandra C. <1962-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Biology unmoored : Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology / / Sandra Bamford Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2007
©2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages) : illustrations, maps
Disciplina: 305.89/912
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs
Soggetto non controllato: assisted reproductive technologies
biodiversity
biologists
biology
biotechnology
cloning
environmental impacts
ethnographers
ethnographic research
genetically modified organisms
gmos
human condition
human genome mapping
human impact
human relationships
melanesia
natural world
nonfiction
organic life
papua new guinea
physiological
reproduction
reproductive technologies
sex and culture
sexual reproduction
social science
western ideas
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-218) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: conceptual frameworks -- Cultural landscapes -- Insubstantial identities -- Embodiments of detachment -- (Im) mortal undertakings -- Conceiving global identities -- Conclusion: conceptual displacements.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 technologies (ARTs), the mapping of the human genome, cloning, the commodification of biodiversity, and the manufacture and sale of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Titolo autorizzato: Biology unmoored  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35837-5
9786612358371
0-520-93947-6
1-4337-0138-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784411803321
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