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 involved in all matters of everyday life from the trivial to the dire. Yet the vast majority of cultures throughout...
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