Sounding the limits of life essays in the anthropology of biology and beyond /
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 abs...
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| Main Author: |
Helmreich, Stefan, 1966- |
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Roosth, Sophia,, Friedner, Michele Ilana, 1978- |
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eBook
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| Language: |
English
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxii, 300 pages) : illustrations.
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| Series: |
Princeton studies in culture and technology.
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