Contents:
Preface 1
PART ONE, DIVIDED ORIGINS
Introduction: Divided Origins
The Child's Two Bodies A Tool
Divided Origins
1. Relatives Are Always a Surprise: Biotechnology in an Age
of Individualism
An Age of Individualism
Adding Debate
Individual and Common Interests
Recombinant Families
Thinking About Relatives
2. Embedded Science
Isolated Knowledge
Relations Everywhere
Kinship Uncovered
Caveat
3. Emergent Properties
Multiple Origins
An Analogy
Offspring into Property
Information into Knowledge
Relations into Relations


III
Kinship and Knowledge
The Informational Family
PART TWO. THE ARITHMETIC OF OWNERSHIP
Introduction: The Arithmetic of Ownership
Conception by Intent
Leaving 'Knowledge' to One Side
The Arithmetic of Ownership
4. The Patent and the Malanggan
Introducing the Body
Enchantment
Return to New Ireland-1
Patenting Technology
Return to New Ireland-2





5. Losing (out on) Intellectual Resources 111

The Terms of an Agreement
Tradition and Modernity
Body Ownership
Whole Persons: Things
Part Persons: Agents


125 IIΙ 129 Decontextualisation
Intellectual Resources
6.
Divided Origins and the Arithmetic of Ownership
II
Counting People: Murik
Analogous Worlds
Counting Ancestors: Omie
Owners and Makers 144
Propagating Images 147
IΠΙ 149
Intellectual Products? 149
Ownership of Persons?
Single and Multiple Origins
Applied Maths
157 IV 160
Notes 163
References 201
Author Index
Subject Index
217