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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

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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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
4 January 2016
Pages
328
ISBN
9780691164816

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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
4 January 2016
Pages
328
ISBN
9780691164816