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Product Identifiers
PublisherLexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN-10149852186X
ISBN-139781498521864
eBay Product ID (ePID)23038406408
Product Key Features
Number of Pages148 Pages
Publication NameBiosocial Synchrony on Sumba : Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
SubjectAnthropology / Cultural & Social, Ecology
TypeTextbook
AuthorCynthia T. Fowler
Subject AreaNature, Social Science
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight8.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
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, 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., 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.
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentChapter 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
SynopsisBiosocial 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: 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.