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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more
at www.luminosoa.org. What can anthropological thinking contribute
to the study of revolutions? The first book-length attempt to
develop an anthropological approach to revolutions, Anthropologies
of Revolution proposes that revolutions should be seen as concerted
attempts to radically reconstitute the worlds people inhabit.
Viewing revolutions as all-embracing, world-creating projects, the
authors ask readers to move beyond the idea of revolutions as acts
of violent political rupture, and instead view them as processes of
societal transformation that penetrate deeply into the fabric of
people's lives, unfolding and refolding the coordinates of human
existence.
The analysis of religion has often placed an emphasis on beliefs
and ideologies, prioritizing these elements over those of the
material world. Through the ethnographic analysis of a variety of
contemporary religious practices, Making Spirits questions the
presumed separation of spirit and matter, and sheds light on the
dynamics between spiritual and material domains. By examining the
cultural contexts in which material culture is central to the
creation and experience of religion and belief, this volume
analyses the different ways in which the concepts of the material
and spiritual worlds intersect, interact and inform each other in
the reproduction of religious rites. Using examples such as spirit
mediums, fetishes and ritual objects across a variety of cultures
such as Latin America, Japan and Central Africa, Nico Tassi and
Diana Espirito Santo offer insights that challenge accepted
categories in the study of religion, making this book important for
scholars of comparative religion, anthropology and sociology.
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