Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas [1st ed.] 0520250613, 9780520250611, 0520250621, 9780520250628

Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach:

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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, Juan de Fuca Ridge
7. Extraterrestrial Seas: Astrobiology and the Nature of Alien Life

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas [1st ed.]
 0520250613, 9780520250611, 0520250621, 9780520250628

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