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Biology unmoored : Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology
- Author
- Bamford, Sandra C., 1962-
- Title
- Biology unmoored : Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology / Sandra Bamford.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
- Description
- xiv, 230 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- URL
- <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2006009333-d.html <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2006009333-t.html <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/2006009333-b.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-218) and index. Paperback.
- Contents
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- Introduction: conceptual frameworks
- Cultural landscapes
- Insubstantial identities
- Embodiments of detachment
- (Im) mortal undertakings
- Conceiving global identities
- Conclusion: conceptual displacements.
- Kinsey subjects
- Ethnography--Papua New Guinea. Customs in traditional societies--Papua New Guinea Family in traditional societies--Papua New Guinea Social customs--Papua New Guinea. Anthropology.
- ISBN
- 9780520247123 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520247124 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520247130 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0520247132 (pbk. : alk. paper)