Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology - Couverture rigide

Bamford, Sandra

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ISBN 10 : 0520247124 ISBN 13 : 9780520247123

Editeur : University of California Press, 2007

Synopsis

"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).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520247124
• ISBN 13: 9780520247123
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 245
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