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- Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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).
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. iii-v
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- 1. Cultural Landscapes
- pp. 20-45
- 2. Insubstantial Identities
- pp. 46-79
- 3. Embodiments of Detachment
- pp. 80-116
- 4. (Im)Mortal Undertakings
- pp. 117-149
- 5. Conceiving Global Identities
- pp. 150-168
- Conclusion: Conceptual Displacements
- pp. 169-177
- References
- pp. 191-218
- Production Notes
- p. 231
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520939479
Related ISBN(s)
9780520247123
MARC Record
OCLC
290539838
Pages
245
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No