The End of the World
de Martino, Ernesto / Zinn, Dorothy Louise
A philosopher, historian of religions, and anthropologist, Ernesto De Martino is often glossed as "ahead of his time." In his work, a reader sees the roots of psychological and medical anthropology, discussions of reflexivity and the role of the ethnographer, considerations of colonialism and migration and the trauma they might engender, and an anticipation of the "existential turn" in anthropology. A reader would also find an attentiveness to...
