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

by Marshall Sahlins

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691215936
• ISBN13: 9780691215938
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"