TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bamford,Sandra C.
TI  - Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology
SN  - 9780520939479
AV  - DU740.42.B34 2007 
U1  - 305.89912 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - Ethnobiology -- Papua New Guinea -- Gulf Province
KW  - Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Agriculture
KW  - Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Ethnobiology
KW  - Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Psychology
KW  - Human body -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea -- Gulf Province
KW  - Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Papua New Guinea -- Gulf Province
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- 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
N2  - 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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