Cutting Cosmos

<p> For the first time in over 30 years a new ethnographic study emerges on the Bugkalot tribe more widely known as the Ilongot of the northern Philippines. Exploring the notion of masculinity among the Bugkalot <em>Cutting Cosmos</em> is not only an experimental anthropological study of the paradoxes around which Bugkalot society revolves but also a reflection on anthropological theory and writing. Focusing on the transgressive acts through which masculinity is performed this book explores the idea of the <em>cosmic cut</em> the ritual act that enables the Bugkalot man to momentarily hold still the chaotic flows of his world.</p>