| Description |
1 online resource (234 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Table of contents ; Preface ; 1 Introduction ; 1.1 What, then, is life? ; 1.2 The biosocial turn ; 1.3 Biosocial relations ; 1.4 Moving concepts ; I Selves ; 2 Spitting image: decode me! |
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2.1 From physical anthropology to molecular anthropology 2.2 Personal genomics, via Oxford and Reykjavik ; 2.3 deCODEme: a somewhat personal guided tour ; 2.4 Cyberspace: the experts and the rest ; 2.5 From genome to identity ; 2.6 Conclusions ; 3 Laboring lives: genomic stuff |
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3.1 Producing bodies 3.2 The organic and the inorganic ; 3.3 Conclusions ; 4 What's in a genome? Indigenous encounters ; 4.1 Inuit contexts ; 4.2 The Silk Road of the Arctic ; 4.3 The IGHP: a brief ethnography ; 4.4 Research practices: the Arctic and beyond ; 4.5 Conclusions |
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5 Name talk: technologies of belonging 5.1 Technologies of naming ; 5.2 Inuit name talk ; 5.3 Renaming ; 5.4 Names, populations, and ethnic groups ; 5.5 Conclusions ; II Bodies ; 6 Human variation: shifting perspectives ; 6.1 Physical and biological anthropology |
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6.2 The relational superhuman 6.3 Human variation after the biosocial turn ; 7 Nim Chimpsky et al.: human-animal relations ; 7.1 Reports to the academy: almost human, almost chimpanzee ; 7.2 The life and work of Nim Chimpsky ; 7.3 Becoming primates, becoming human ; 7.4 Why language? |
| Summary |
Reflecting upon the changing human condition, Palsson addresses various conflated zones of life at particular times and scales |
| Notes |
7.5 Human-animal relations of production |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Physical anthropology.
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Sociobiology.
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Life sciences.
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Culture.
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Sociobiology
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Anthropology, Physical
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Biological Phenomena
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Culture
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Biological Science Disciplines
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physical anthropology.
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biological sciences.
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culture note.
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Culture.
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Life sciences.
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Physical anthropology.
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Sociobiology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316428368 |
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1316428362 |
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9781316084519 |
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1316084515 |
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1107450039 |
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9781107450035 |
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