Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anth. Helmreich, Roosth, Frie PB**

Name: Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anth. Helmreich, Roosth, Frie PB**
Brand: Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press

Sounding the Limits of Life\nby Stefan Helmreich\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Stefan Helmreich\nTitle: Sounding the Limits of Life\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Anthropology\nPublisher: Princeton University Press\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9780691164816\nISBN-10: 0691164819\nRRP: \u00A328.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nWhat 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.\n\nWhat is life? What is water? What .