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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 technologies (ARTs), the mapping of the human genome, cloning, the commodification of biodiversity, and the manufacture and sale of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Genetic engineering. --- Biotechnology. --- Ethnobiology --- Ethnoecology --- Human body --- Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) --- Designed genetic change --- Engineering, Genetic --- Gene splicing --- Genetic intervention --- Genetic surgery --- Genetic recombination --- Biotechnology --- Transgenic organisms --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Folk biology --- Folkbiology --- Indigenous peoples --- Traditional biology --- Biology, Economic --- Ethnoscience --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Anga (Papua New Guinean people) --- Hamday (Papua New Guinean people) --- Kamea (Papua New Guinean people) --- Kapau (Papua New Guinean people) --- Kukukuku (Papua New Guinea people) --- Kukukuku (Papua New Guinean people) --- Kukukuku (Papuan people) --- Watut (Papua New Guinean people) --- Ethnology --- Papuans --- Human ecology --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Social aspects --- Psychology. --- Agriculture. --- Ethnobiology. --- Ecology --- Gulf Province (Papua New Guinea) --- Gulf District (Papua New Guinea) --- Social life and customs. --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- assisted reproductive technologies. --- biodiversity. --- biologists. --- biology. --- biotechnology. --- cloning. --- environmental impacts. --- ethnographers. --- ethnographic research. --- genetically modified organisms. --- gmos. --- human condition. --- human genome mapping. --- human impact. --- human relationships. --- melanesia. --- natural world. --- nonfiction. --- organic life. --- papua new guinea. --- physiological. --- reproduction. --- reproductive technologies. --- sex and culture. --- sexual reproduction. --- social science. --- western ideas.