{"product_id":"the-end-of-the-world-9780226820576","title":"The End of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first English translation of a classic work of twentieth-century anthropology and philosophy.     A philosopher, historian of religions, and anthropologist, Ernesto de Martino (19081965) produced a body of work that prefigured many ideas and concerns that would later come to animate anthropology. In his writing, we can see the roots of ethnopsychiatry and medical anthropology, discussions of reflexivity and the role of the ethnographer, considerations of social inequality and hegemony from a Gramscian perspective, and an anticipation of the discipline's existential turn. We also find an attentiveness to hope and possibility, despite the gloomy title of his posthumously published book La fine del mondo, or The End of the World. Examining apocalypse as an individual as well as a cultural phenomenon, treating subjects both classic and contemporary and both European and non-Western, ranging across ethnography, history, literature, psychiatry, and philosophy, de Martino probes how we re\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“De Martino was well ahead of his time. Since his death we have witnessed the rise of medical anthropology, reflexivity, ethnographic film, ethnomusicology, and phenomenology. The time is now ripe for this translation of \u003ci\u003eLa fine del mondo \u003c\/i\u003eto appear.” * Charles Stewart, University College London *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Translator’s Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Overture 1: Will There Be a World Tomorrow?\u003cbr\u003e 1: Mundus\u003cbr\u003e 2: Psychopathological Apocalypses\u003cbr\u003e 3: The Drama of Christian Apocalypse\u003cbr\u003e 4: Apocalypse and Decolonization\u003cbr\u003e 5: The Apocalypse of the West\u003cbr\u003e 6: Anthropology and Marxism\u003cbr\u003e 7: Anthropology and Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732927394135,"sku":"9780226820576","price":26.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226820576.jpg?v=1719998984","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-end-of-the-world-9780226820576","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}