- Turning of the bones (retournement) ceremony, in
which the ancestors are disinterred and told of
village events since they were last spoken to.
-outside Maroantsetra, April 1997 © H. Heying
Antipode is a story of moving between cultures, of coming face to face with expectations
developed while living a comfortable life in America, but exposed when
living in a tent in the rainforest.
Antipode is a story of nature, of field work and sweat, of being dependent on the vagaries of weather, and on the cycles of the
moon and the tides.
Antipode is a story of being a white woman in a land where white women are rare, of the curiosity this provokes, and the
friends made.
Antipode is a story of low-tech science, of observation and experiment that is contingent
on little beyond the animals themselves, and the observer.
Antipode is a story of conservation, of rainforests still standing, and of those that have fallen.
