Biology Unmoored : Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology.

By: Bamford, Sandra CMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (246 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780520939479Subject(s): Biotechnology | Ethnobiology -- Papua New Guinea -- Gulf Province | Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Agriculture | Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Ethnobiology | Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) -- Psychology | Human body -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea -- Gulf Province | Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Papua New Guinea -- Gulf ProvinceGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Biology Unmoored : Melanesian Reflections on Life and BiotechnologyDDC classification: 305.89912 LOC classification: DU740.42.B34 2007Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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