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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 hig...
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20 February 2007

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).
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Pages: 245
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
20 February 2007
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520247130
Format: Paperback
Sandra Bamford is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the editor of Embodying Modernity and Postmodernity: Ritual, Praxis and Social Change in Melanesia, and coeditor of Genealogy—Beyond Kinship: Sequence, Transmission and Essence in Ethnography and Social Theory.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Conceptual Frameworks
1. Cultural Landscapes
2. Insubstantial Identities
3. Embodiments of Detachment
4. (Im)Mortal Undertakings
5. Conceiving Global Identities
Conclusion: Conceptual Displacements
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Conceptual Frameworks
1. Cultural Landscapes
2. Insubstantial Identities
3. Embodiments of Detachment
4. (Im)Mortal Undertakings
5. Conceiving Global Identities
Conclusion: Conceptual Displacements
Notes
References
Index