Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond
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Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond
By (Author) Stefan Helmreich
Contributions by Sophia Roosth
Contributions by Michele Friedner
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
4th January 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
301.01
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Paperback
328
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
369g
Description
What 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.
Reviews
"Winner of the 2016 Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts"
"This collection is extremely impressive. The notes and bibliography read like a veritable state-of-the-art of the field; the author has read and imbibed everything and everyone and is in firm command of his disciplinary landscape. Helmreich has been a leader among anthropologists in applying to science a new kind of methodologically sophisticated ethnography."---Oren Harman, European Legacy
Author Bio
Stefan Helmreich is professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Alien Ocean and Silicon Second Nature.
