Login

Castro, Eduardo Viveiros de

The Ends of the World

Castro, Eduardo Viveiros de - The Ends of the World, ebook

65,90€

Ebook, ePUB with Adobe DRM
ISBN: 9781509504015
DRM Restrictions

Printing54 pages with an additional page accrued every 14 hours, capped at 54 pages
Copy to clipboard5 excerpts

The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these visions have been given a new lease on life. Information and analyses concerning the human causes and the catastrophic consequences of the planetary ‘crisis’ have been accumulating at an ever-increasing rate, mobilising popular opinion as well as academic reflection.

In this book, philosopher Déborah Danowski and anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro offer a bold overview and interpretation of these current discourses on ‘the end of the world’, reading them as thought experiments on the decline of the West’s anthropological adventure Ð that is, as attempts, though not necessarily intentional ones, at inventing a mythology that is adequate to the present. This work has important implications for the future development of ecological practices and it will appeal to a broad audience interested in contemporary anthropology, philosophy, and environmentalism.

Keywords: Apocalypse, environmental catastrophe, crisis, Anthropology Special Topics

Author(s)
 
Translator
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2017
Language
en
Edition
1
Page amount
180 pages
Category
Geography, Travel
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781509504015
Printed ISBN
9781509503988

Similar titles