Fowler’s Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba is a subtle reminder for ethnobiologists/anthropologists to view indigenous beliefs and knowledge systems from the perspective of the respective communities. Are anthropologists also capable of adopting the perspectives of the non-living? Fowler answers her own question by employing what she calls a “manipulation of perspectives” to promote an understanding of biosocial beings from the perspectives of seaworms, their worshippers, the celestial bodies, and human bodies. Fowler’s arguments draw strength from the huge volume of data collected since 1997 in collaboration with the Kodi people of tana nale or the land of seaworms, effectively interweaving ethnography, astronomy, marine biology, and ecology. The crux of the book is based on Ingold’s theory of biosocial becomings, and the author has successfully portrayed how indigenous understandings see no boundaries between the living and the non-living, the close and the distant, or nature and culture.

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Sumba上的生物社会同步：印度尼西亚的多物种关系和环境变化。辛西娅·T·福勒。2016.列克星敦图书，兰纳姆。137页

Fowler关于Sumba的《生物社会同步》是对民族生物学家/人类学家从各个社区的角度来看待土著信仰和知识系统的一个微妙的提醒。人类学家是否也有能力接受无生命的观点？福勒通过运用她所谓的“视角操纵”来回答自己的问题，以从sea虫，其崇拜者，天体和人体的角度促进对生物社会存在的理解。Fowler的论据是从1997年以来与tana nale的科迪人或sea虫之地合作收集的大量数据中汲取的，这些数据有效地将人种学，天文学，海洋生物学和生态学交织在一起。这本书的重点是基于英戈尔德的生物社会变迁理论，