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Biology Unmoored

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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 high...
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  • 20 February 2007
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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 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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Price: $34.95
Pages: 245
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 20 February 2007
ISBN: 9780520939479
Format: eBook
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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