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100 1 _aHelmreich, Stefan.
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245 1 0 _aSounding the Limits of Life :
_bEssays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond.
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260 _bPrinceton University Press,
_c(c)2015.
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490 1 _aPrinceton Studies in Culture and Technology
505 0 0 _a""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Sounding Life, Water, Sound""; ""CHAPTER 1 ã€? What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies""; ""CHAPTER 2 ã€? Life Forms: A Keyword Entry (with Sophia Roosth)""; ""CHAPTER 3 ã€?â?? An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater""; ""CHAPTER 4 ã€?â?? Cetology Now: Formatting the Twenty-First-Century Whale""; ""CHAPTER 5 ã€?â?? How Like a Reef: Figuring Coral, 1839â€?2010""; ""CHAPTER 6 ã€? Homo microbis: Species, Race, Sex, and the Human Microbiome""
505 0 0 _a""CHAPTER 7 ã€? The Signature of Life: Designing the Astrobiological Imagination""""CHAPTER 8 â?? Nature/Culture/Seawater: Theory Machines, Anthropology, Oceanization""; ""CHAPTER 9 â?? Time and the Tsunami: Indian Ocean, 2004""; ""CHAPTER 10 â?? From Spaceship Earth to Google Ocean: Planetary Icons, Indexes, and Infrastructures""; ""CHAPTER 11 â??â?? Underwater Music: Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science""; ""CHAPTER 12 â??â?? Seashell Sound""; ""CHAPTER 13 â?? Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies (with Michele Friedner)""; ""CHAPTER 14 â?? Chimeric Sensing""
505 0 0 _a""Life, Water, Sound Resounding""""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
520 0 _aWhat is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists-biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers-are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social. In the age of synthetic biology, rising sea levels, and new technologies of listening, these phenomena stretch toward their conceptual snapping points, breaching the boundaries between the natural, cultural, and virtual. Through examinations of the.
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650 0 _aPhysical anthropology.
650 0 _aHuman biology.
650 0 _aLife sciences.
650 0 _aEthnology.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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