Biology unmoored : Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology / / Sandra Bamford
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2007 |
| ©2007 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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 |
| 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.: | 9910811350303321 |
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