Culturalist approach critiques Western disenchantment, highlighting its own enchantment's dangers.
Marshall Sahlins's lifelong championing of the American culturalist school of social anthropology was motivated by culture critique: it enabled his criticism of modern "Western" disenchantment as its own, disastrious, form of enchantment. This was true of his earliest work, and remains true in The New Science of the Enchanted Universe , which explores "transcendentalist" ontologies as dangerous to a right relationship with the natural world.
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