The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity

by Marshall Sahlins

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691215928

ISBN13:9780691215921

Release Date:April 2022

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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