The third book in Morris Berman's much acclaimed trilogy on the
evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his
earlier work which garnered such praise as "solid lessons in the
history of ideas" (Kirkus Reviews), "filled with piquant details"
(Common Boundary), "an informative synthesis and a remarkably
friendly, good-natured jeremiad" (The Village Voice). Here, in a
remarkable discussion of our hunter-gatherer ancestry and the
"paradoxical" mode of perception that it involved, Berman shows how
a sense of alertness, or secular/sacred immediacy, subsequently got
buried by the rise of sedentary civilization, religion, and
vertical power relationships.
In an integrated tour de force, Wandering God explores the
meaning of Paleolithic art, the origins of social inequality, the
nature of cross-cultural child rearing, the relationship between
women and agriculture, and the world view of present-day nomadic
peoples, as well as the emergence of "paradoxical" consciousness in
the philosophical writings of the twentieth century.
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