ISBN:
9780520939479
,
0520939476
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 230 p.)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Biology unmoored
DDC:
305.89912
Keywords:
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) Ethnobiology
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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
;
Indigenous peoples Ecology
;
Biotechnology
;
Genetic engineering
;
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) Psychology
;
Human body Social aspects
;
Ethnobiology
;
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) Ethnobiology
;
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) Agriculture
;
Human body Social aspects
;
Ethnobiology
;
Biotechnology
;
Genetic engineering
;
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) Psychology
;
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) Agriculture
;
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) Ethnobiology
;
Ethnoecology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General
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Biotechnology
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Ethnobiology
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Genetic engineering
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Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) ; Agriculture
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Human body ; Social aspects
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Ethnoecology
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Manners and customs
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Ecologische aspecten
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Biotechnologie
;
Traditionele samenleving
;
Papoea's
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Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs
;
Nieuw-Guinea
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Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs
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Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs
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Nieuw-Guinea
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Papua New Guinea ; Gulf Province
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 techn
Abstract:
Introduction: conceptual frameworks -- Cultural landscapes -- Insubstantial identities -- Embodiments of detachment -- (Im) mortal undertakings -- Conceiving global identities -- Conclusion: conceptual displacements.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: conceptual frameworksCultural landscapes -- Insubstantial identities -- Embodiments of detachment -- (Im) mortal undertakings -- Conceiving global identities -- Conclusion: conceptual displacements.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-218) and index. - Description based on print version record
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