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Accepted Paper:
From Culturalism to Onto-Cosmology - and Back Through Neo-structuralism: The Salience of Sahlins' Holism in the Study of Religion
Alessandro Testa
(Charles University)
The paper will pay tribute to a giant of social and historical anthropology, Marshall Sahlins, by discussing the previous or potential importance of his scholarship in the study of religion. An emphasis will be given on his theoretico-methodological turns and twists over the past 70 years.
Paper long abstract:
Two years after his death, this paper will pay tribute to a giant of social and historical anthropology, Marshall Sahlins, by discussing the previous or potential importance of his scholarship in the study of religion. An emphasis will be given on his theoretico-methodological turns and twists over the past 70 years.
Intellectually active until the very end of his life and widely (and rightly) considered "the greatest living anthropologist" until his death, Sahlins returned to genuinely religious interests in his later years, although some of his earlier, groundbreaking works also mark a turning point in the study of things cultural and religious.