The End of the World according to Ernesto De Martino
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https://doi.org/10.5380/cra.v24i1.86721Keywords:
Anthropology of religions, Ernesto De Martino, End of the world.Abstract
La fine del Mondo is the title that Ernesto De Martino wanted to give a work on which he
worked intensely for several years, starting in the late 1950s and which his premature death, in 1965, did not allow him to finish. The very dense material composed of notes, critical analyzes of a huge literature, and already complete excerpts of the project was published for the first time in 1977 and in a second French edition, completely reorganized, in 2016. The theme of the End of the World is analyzed by the author in its double aspect: as a historically determined cultural theme (in proto-Christian eschatology and in the prophetic and millenarian movements of oppressed peoples) andas a permanent anthropological risk, dramatically illustrated by psychopathological literature. From a comparative perspective, De Martino reflects on the meanings of apocalypses in various times and places, bringing anthropological analysis to the heart of Western culture itself.
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