Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba

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

• Chapter 1 Stretching Our Biosoical UniverseChapter 2 Making Worlds with Transtaxa Beings in Multispecies SwarmsChapter 3 The Interchangeability of Humans, Seaworms, and SpiritsChapter 4 Connecting with Celestial Bodies and Un-Grounding Space-TimeChapter 5 Listening for Cosmic Voices and Speculating about their PerspectivesChapter 6 Sequential Synchronies in Multispecies Interactions and Biosoical Change

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.