Alien ocean : anthropological voyages in microbial seas /
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| Author / Creator: | Helmreich, Stefan, 1966- |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009. |
| Description: | xvii, 403 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7413917 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations Moorings
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Life at Sea
- 1. The Message from the Mud: Making Meaning Out of Microbes in Monterey Bay
- 2. Dissolving the Tree of Life: Alien Kinship at Hydrothermal Vents
- 3. Blue-Green Capitalism: Marine Biotechnology in Hawaii
- 4. Alien Species, Native Politics: Mixing Up Nature and Culture in Ocean Oahu
- 5. Abducting the Atlantic: How the Ocean Got Its Genome
- 6. Submarine Cyborgs: Transductive Ethnography at the Seafloor
- 7. Extraterrestrial Seas: Astrobiology and the Nature of Alien Life
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
