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In the epoch of climate change and its deleterious impacts on the planet, there is significant anxiety about the future and whether humans will be able to survive the challenges of a changed natural environment. If colonialism and slavery concern the weight of the past, as Lambek cogently argues, is climate change the weight of the future? In this chapter, I discuss how in Seychelles, African-descended peoples now directly affected by the impacts of climate change on the ocean and who now live with the forest, coast and sea respond to the arising challenges by engaging their ancestral past. They do so via sound and music, drumming, dancing and singing. The ethnographic data shows that the quantum coast has sonic qualities and that it offers vibrational matter of its own.

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Ancestral Tides and the Ecology of Remembrance in Seychelles

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    2026年

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  • Rosabelle Boswell

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In the epoch of climate change and its deleterious impacts on the planet, there is significant anxiety about the future and whether humans will be able to survive the challenges of a changed natural environment. If colonialism and slavery concern the weight of the past, as Lambek cogently argues, is climate change the weight of the future? In this chapter, I discuss how in Seychelles, African-descended peoples now directly affected by the impacts of climate change on the ocean and who now live with the forest, coast and sea respond to the arising challenges by engaging their ancestral past. They do so via sound and music, drumming, dancing and singing. The ethnographic data shows that the quantum coast has sonic qualities and that it offers vibrational matter of its own.