Back to the future: New Age movement and hunter-gatherers
The paper attends to some remarkable parallels, in terms of social organisation, concepts of the person, and cosmology, between contemporary New Agers in Glastonbury, England, and nomadic hunter-gatherer societies such as the Bushman and Inuit Eskimo. Such objective observation complements the conce...
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ftunstandrewcris:oai:risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk:publications/41d56606-921f-4945-9ae0-f03ca61c97ec 2023-05-15T16:06:55+02:00 Back to the future: New Age movement and hunter-gatherers Riches, David John Prince, R 1999 https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/back-to-the-future-new-age-movement-and-huntergatherers(41d56606-921f-4945-9ae0-f03ca61c97ec).html eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Riches , D J & Prince , R 1999 , ' Back to the future: New Age movement and hunter-gatherers ' , Anthropos , vol. 94 , pp. 107-120 . HISTORY SAN article 1999 ftunstandrewcris 2021-12-26T14:10:18Z The paper attends to some remarkable parallels, in terms of social organisation, concepts of the person, and cosmology, between contemporary New Agers in Glastonbury, England, and nomadic hunter-gatherer societies such as the Bushman and Inuit Eskimo. Such objective observation complements the conceptions of the New Agers themselves, who see, amongst "tribal" people, an ideal way of living. An interpretation of the New Age movement, as a counter-cultural way of life in the present-day West, may accordingly be offered: that the movement reflects a determined effort, on the part of adherents, to rethink in terms of first principles the very nature of human society. Article in Journal/Newspaper eskimo* inuit University of St Andrews: Research Portal |
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The paper attends to some remarkable parallels, in terms of social organisation, concepts of the person, and cosmology, between contemporary New Agers in Glastonbury, England, and nomadic hunter-gatherer societies such as the Bushman and Inuit Eskimo. Such objective observation complements the conceptions of the New Agers themselves, who see, amongst "tribal" people, an ideal way of living. An interpretation of the New Age movement, as a counter-cultural way of life in the present-day West, may accordingly be offered: that the movement reflects a determined effort, on the part of adherents, to rethink in terms of first principles the very nature of human society. |
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Riches , D J & Prince , R 1999 , ' Back to the future: New Age movement and hunter-gatherers ' , Anthropos , vol. 94 , pp. 107-120 . |
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