Biology unmoored : Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology / / Sandra Bamford |
Autore | Bamford Sandra C. <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 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 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 |
ISBN |
1-282-35837-5
9786612358371 0-520-93947-6 1-4337-0138-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: conceptual frameworks -- Cultural landscapes -- Insubstantial identities -- Embodiments of detachment -- (Im) mortal undertakings -- Conceiving global identities -- Conclusion: conceptual displacements. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784411803321 |
Bamford Sandra C. <1962->
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Imagining karma : ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirth / / Gananath Obeyesekere |
Autore | Obeyesekere Gananath |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles ; ; London : , : University of California Press, , [2002] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (480 p.) |
Disciplina | 291.2/37 |
Collana | Comparative studies in religion and society |
Soggetto topico |
Reincarnation - Buddhism
Reincarnation Religious ethics |
Soggetto non controllato |
amerindian tradition
buddhism buddhist tradition canada classicists cosmology cross cultural scholarship cultural relativism cultural stories death empedocles ethics greek tradition human condition indic civilizations indologists intellectual context karma melanesia methodological framework nietzsche personal transformation philosophy pindar plato pythagoras rebirth reincarnation siberia textbooks weber west africa wittgenstein |
ISBN |
0-520-93630-2
1-59734-669-1 |
Classificazione | BE 2460 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. Karma and Rebirth in Indic Religions: Origins and Transformations -- 2. Non-Indic Theories of Rebirth -- 3. The Imaginary Experiment and the Buddhist Implications -- 4. The Buddhist Ascesis -- 5. Eschatology and Soteriology in Greek Rebirth -- 6. Rebirth and Reason -- 7. Imprisoning Frames and Open Debates: Trobriander, Buddhist, and Balinese Rebirth Revisited -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783075303321 |
Obeyesekere Gananath
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Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles ; ; London : , : University of California Press, , [2002] | ||
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Imagining karma : ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirth / / Gananath Obeyesekere |
Autore | Obeyesekere Gananath |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles ; ; London : , : University of California Press, , [2002] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (480 p.) |
Disciplina | 291.2/37 |
Collana | Comparative studies in religion and society |
Soggetto topico |
Reincarnation - Buddhism
Reincarnation Religious ethics |
Soggetto non controllato |
amerindian tradition
buddhism buddhist tradition canada classicists cosmology cross cultural scholarship cultural relativism cultural stories death empedocles ethics greek tradition human condition indic civilizations indologists intellectual context karma melanesia methodological framework nietzsche personal transformation philosophy pindar plato pythagoras rebirth reincarnation siberia textbooks weber west africa wittgenstein |
ISBN |
0-520-93630-2
1-59734-669-1 |
Classificazione | BE 2460 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. Karma and Rebirth in Indic Religions: Origins and Transformations -- 2. Non-Indic Theories of Rebirth -- 3. The Imaginary Experiment and the Buddhist Implications -- 4. The Buddhist Ascesis -- 5. Eschatology and Soteriology in Greek Rebirth -- 6. Rebirth and Reason -- 7. Imprisoning Frames and Open Debates: Trobriander, Buddhist, and Balinese Rebirth Revisited -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813931003321 |
Obeyesekere Gananath
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Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles ; ; London : , : University of California Press, , [2002] | ||
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Kastom, property and ideology : land transformations in Melanesia / / edited by Siobhan McDonnell, Matthew G. Allen, Colin Filer |
Autore | McDonnell Siobhan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | ANU Press, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (419 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 333.30995 |
Soggetto topico | Land tenure - Melanesia |
Soggetto non controllato |
land policy
land tenure melanesia Customary land Elaeis Honiara Papua New Guinea Vanuatu |
ISBN | 1-76046-106-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910213851603321 |
McDonnell Siobhan
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ANU Press, 2017 | ||
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Talking it through : responses to sorcery and witchcraft beliefs and practices in Melanesia / / edited by Miranda Forsyth and Richard Eves |
Autore | Forsyth Miranda |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | ANU Press, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 pages) : illustrations, charts |
Disciplina | 133.43 |
Soggetto topico |
Witchcraft - Melanesia
Witchcraft - Papua New Guinea |
Soggetto non controllato |
development
witchcraft melanesia interventions sorcery Maleficium (sorcery) Papua New Guinea |
ISBN | 1925021572 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131513103321 |
Forsyth Miranda
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ANU Press, 2015 | ||
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