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The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: The Anthropology of the Greater Part of Humanity – Sahlins Marshall – IS – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-17-160398-4

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The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: The Anthropology of the Greater Part of Humanity
14.99 €
From a Western perspective, we live in a secularized—disenchanted—world. Gods and spirits, if they exist at all, have been separated from our immanent world and banished to the otherworldly—transcendental—world, leaving the earth at the mercy of humans, now free to create their own institutions by their own means, according to their own standards. However, for most of human history, human cultures were surrounded by myriad non-human beings—gods, ancestors, spirits; they were the causes of human sorrow and joy, the sources of success and failure in various endeavors—from agriculture and hunting to sexual reproduction and political ambitions.

Marshall Sahlins, drawing on an incredibly voluminous body of material—from Inuit and Trobriand societies to the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia—demonstrates that describing non-Western societies in familiar terms ("religion," "myth," "supernatural") leads to a diminishment of their culture rather than an understanding. He proposes a new paradigm for exploring the enchanted universe.
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