Sounding the limits of life : essays in the anthropology of biology and beyond / Stefan Helmreich ; with contributions from Sophia Roosth and Michele Friedner.

Author/creator Helmreich, Stefan, 1966-
Other author Roosth, Sophia.
Other author Friedner, Michele Ilana, 1978-
Format Book
PublicationPrinceton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Descriptionxxii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesPrinceton studies in culture and technology
Princeton studies in culture and technology. ^A1287965
Contents List of illustrations -- Sounding life, water, sound -- Chapter 1. What was life? : answers from three limit biologies -- Chapter 2. Life forms : a keyword entry / with Sophia Roosth -- Chapter 3. An archaeology of artifical life, underwater -- Chapter 4. Cetology now : formatting the twenty-first-century whale -- Chapter 5. How like a reef : figuring coral, 1839-2010 -- Chapter 6. Homo microbis : species, race, sex and the human microbiome -- Chapter 7. The signature of life : designing the astrobiological imagination -- Chapter 8. Nature/culture/seawater : theory machines, anthropology, oceanization -- Chapter 9. Time and the tsunami : Indian Ocean, 2004 -- Chapter 10. From Spaceship Earth to Google Ocean : planetary icons, indexes, and infrastructures -- Chapter 11. Underwater music : tuning composition to the sounds of science -- Chapter 12. Seashell sound -- Chapter 13. Sound studies meets deaf studies / with Michele Friedner -- Chapter 14. Chimeric sensing -- Life, water, sound resounding.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2014043633
ISBN9780691164809 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN0691164800 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780691164816 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN0691164819 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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