Afterword.

This aferword to the Discussion Forum reflects on the limitations, but also the usefulness, of Marshall Sahlins's New Science. Sahlins lacked an awareness of his own positionality in ways that have made his work unnatractive to Indigenous scholars (and scholars in the field of Indigenous Studies), b...

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Published in:Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 37 - 41
Main Author: Golub, Alex
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Spring2025
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