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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. 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: 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.
Fire is a daunting human ecological challenge and a major subject
in science and policy debates about global trends in land
conversion, climate change, and human health. Persistent
environmental orthodoxies reduce complex burning traditions to
overly simplistic representations of environmental destruction,
degradation, and loss while reinforcing existing social inequities
involving smallholders. Fire Otherwise: Ethnobiology of Burning for
a Changing World advocates for a more inclusive and pluralistic
fire ecology, a shift from the paradigmatic globalized version of
fire science and management towards research and management that
embraces anthropogenic fire regimes and broader understandings of
the ways humans interact with fire. The authors present new
evaluations of human interactions with fires in contexts of
changing environmental conditions. Through deep description and
analysis of knowledge and practices enacted by local communities
who ignite, manage, and extinguish fires, this collection of case
studies supports proactive local and regional efforts to adapt
amidst continually changing social and ecological circumstances.
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