Sounding the limits of life : essays in the anthropology of biology and beyond /
Helmreich, Stefan,1966-
Roosth, Sophia.
Friedner, Michele Ilana,1978-
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Physical anthropology.
Human biology.
Life sciences.
Ethnology.