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Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba Cynthia T. Fowler

Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba By Cynthia T. Fowler

Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba by Cynthia T. Fowler


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Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia examines biosocial change in the Austronesian community of the Kodi by examining multispecies interactions between select biota and abiota.

Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba Summary

Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia by Cynthia T. Fowler

Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia examines biosocial change in the Austronesian community of the Kodi by examining multispecies interactions between select biota and abiota. Cynthia T. Fowler describes how the Kodi people coordinate their mundane and ritual practices with polychaetes and celestial bodies, and how this synchrony encourages and is encouraged by social and ecological variations. Fowler grounds her anthropogenic environmental research with information from geospatial science, marine ecology, astronomy, physics, and astrophysics.

Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba Reviews

Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba is an innovative, fascinating, and original take on a society we thought we knew quite well. Cynthia T. Fowler provides revealing and insightful passages that reflect on the relation of space and time, on the periodicity of sea worms and moon phases, and on rituals which try to recover lost souls from celestial bodies. -- Janet Hoskins, University of Southern California
In this lively and innovative book, with its engaging prose style, Cynthia Fowler takes us on a journey across radically different scales of understanding. Fowler suggests new ways of looking at the relationship between biological and non-biological entities and provocatively addresses some enduring concerns in the anthropology of cosmology. -- Roy Ellen, University of Kent

About Cynthia T. Fowler

Cynthia T. Fowler is associate professor of anthropology at Wofford College.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Stretching Our Biosoical Universe Chapter 2 Making Worlds with Transtaxa Beings in Multispecies Swarms Chapter 3 The Interchangeability of Humans, Seaworms, and Spirits Chapter 4 Connecting with Celestial Bodies and Un-Grounding Space-Time Chapter 5 Listening for Cosmic Voices and Speculating about their Perspectives Chapter 6 Sequential Synchronies in Multispecies Interactions and Biosoical Change

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NLS9781498521864
9781498521864
149852186X
Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia by Cynthia T. Fowler
New
Paperback
Lexington Books
2018-10-15
148
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