

The New Science of the Enchanted Universe
An Anthropology of Most of Humanity
Author: Marshall Sahlins
Narrator: BJ Harrison
Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 04/25/2023
Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Anthropology
Synopsis
In this, his last, revelatory book, Marshall Sahlins announces a new method and sets an exciting agenda for the field. He takes listeners around the world. 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.