Biology unmoored : Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology / Sandra Bamford.
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- Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Ethnobiology
- Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Agriculture
- Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Psychology
- Human body -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea -- Gulf Province
- Ethnoecology -- Papua New Guinea -- Gulf Province
- Ethnobiology -- Papua New Guinea -- Gulf Province
- Biotechnology
- Genetic engineering
- Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs
- Bioengineering
- Biotechnology
- Anga (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) -- Ethnobiologie
- Anga (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) -- Agriculture
- Anga (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) -- Psychologie
- Corps humain -- Aspect social -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée -- Gulf
- Ethnobiologie -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée -- Gulf
- Biotechnologie
- Gulf (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) -- Mœurs et coutumes
- Ethnoécologie -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée -- Gulf
- bioengineering
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General
- Biotechnology
- Ethnobiology
- Genetic engineering
- Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Agriculture
- Human body -- Social aspects
- Ethnoecology
- Manners and customs
- Papua New Guinea -- Gulf Province
- Ecologische aspecten
- Biotechnologie
- Traditionele samenleving
- Papoea's
- Nieuw-Guinea
- Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people)
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- DU740.42 .B34 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-218) and index.
Introduction: conceptual frameworks -- Cultural landscapes -- Insubstantial identities -- Embodiments of detachment -- (Im) mortal undertakings -- Conceiving global identities -- Conclusion: conceptual displacements.
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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 techn.
English.
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