Download or read book Biology Unmoored written by Sandra Bamford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon almost three years of ethnographic research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, the author describes a world in which physiological reproduction is not perceived to ground human kinship or human beings' relationships to the organic world. Using indigenous understandings as a counter-reflexive voice through which to consider recent social and technological developments in Europe and North America, the author exposes the ways in which Western ideas about relatedness depend on a notion of physiological reproduction. In the process, she challenges many taken-for-granted assumptions about biology that have underpinned a great deal of social science theory.