Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond

by Stefan Helmreich

Book Overview

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. In the age of synthetic biology, rising sea levels, and new technologies of listening, these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691164819
• ISBN13: 9780691164816
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"