Politics is presented as a transformative alchemical process, where identities are reshaped to effect change. The book highlights the pervasive use of alchemical techniques in contemporary political phenomena and examines how their application has intensified over time. Through this lens, it offers insight into the intricate relationship between identity and political dynamics.
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It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary world is thoroughly infested by a trickster logic - an argument advanced by the claim that in modernity liminality has become permanent; or that modern life is patently absurd.
For graduate students and researchers in anthropological theory, this book offers a renewal of social theory through anthropological concepts such as liminality, trickster, imitation, schismogenesis, participation, and gift relations, by revisiting the rise of the modern world and its sociology via key ideas developed by 'maverick' anthropologists.