Sahlins Marshall
Sahlins Marshall - The New Science Of The Enchanted Universe An Anthropology Of Most Of Humanity - Hardcover
Sahlins Marshall - The New Science Of The Enchanted Universe An Anthropology Of Most Of Humanity - Hardcover
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Description: One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other cultures From the perspective of Western modernity humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods spirits and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond no longer living in our midst and being involved in all matters of everyday life from the trivial to the dire. Yet the vast majority of cultures throughout human history treat spirits as very real persons members of a cosmic society who interact with humans and control their fate. In most cultures even today people are but a small part of an enchanted universe misconstrued by the transcendent categories of religion and the supernatural. The New Science of the Enchanted Universe shows how anthropologists and other social scientists must rethink these cultures of immanence and study them by their own lights. In this his last revelatory book Marshall Sahlins announces a new method and sets an exciting agenda for the field. He takes readers around the world from Inuit of the Arctic Circle to pastoral Dinka of East Africa from Arawet swidden gardeners of Amazonia to Trobriand Island horticulturalists. In the process Sahlins sheds new light on classical and contemporary ethnographies that describe these cultures of immanence and reveals how even the apparently mundane all - too - human spheres of economics and politics emerge as people negotiate with and ultimately usurp the powers of the gods. The New Science of the Enchanted Universe offers a road map for a new practice of anthropology that takes seriously the enchanted universe and its transformations from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary America.
Title: The New Science Of The Enchanted Universe An Anthropology Of Most Of Humanity
Author(s): Sahlins Marshall
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691215921
Pages: 208 Pages, 1 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 4/26/2022
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography
Description: One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other cultures From the perspective of Western modernity humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods spirits and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond no longer living in our midst and being involved in all matters of everyday life from the trivial to the dire. Yet the vast majority of cultures throughout human history treat spirits as very real persons members of a cosmic society who interact with humans and control their fate. In most cultures even today people are but a small part of an enchanted universe misconstrued by the transcendent categories of religion and the supernatural. The New Science of the Enchanted Universe shows how anthropologists and other social scientists must rethink these cultures of immanence and study them by their own lights. In this his last revelatory book Marshall Sahlins announces a new method and sets an exciting agenda for the field. He takes readers around the world from Inuit of the Arctic Circle to pastoral Dinka of East Africa from Arawet swidden gardeners of Amazonia to Trobriand Island horticulturalists. In the process Sahlins sheds new light on classical and contemporary ethnographies that describe these cultures of immanence and reveals how even the apparently mundane all - too - human spheres of economics and politics emerge as people negotiate with and ultimately usurp the powers of the gods. The New Science of the Enchanted Universe offers a road map for a new practice of anthropology that takes seriously the enchanted universe and its transformations from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary America.
Title: The New Science Of The Enchanted Universe An Anthropology Of Most Of Humanity
Author(s): Sahlins Marshall
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691215921
Pages: 208 Pages, 1 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 4/26/2022
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography
