“This much-anticipated volume brings us Sahlins at his iconoclastic best. His voice leaps from the pages in a magnificent reprise of a scholar-warrior’s lifelong challenge to visions of humankind at large. That largesse here becomes a mode of restorative justice, exposing the anthropocentrism at the heart of so much explanation, a jolt to bring us to our senses.”—Marilyn Strathern, author of Relations: An Anthropological Account“Sahlins draws on his vast erudition to guide us to the realization that the disenchanted world of modernity and its conceptual divides—the animate versus the inanimate, the material versus the spiritual—denote but a state of exception in human history. The New Science of the Enchanted Universe is a lasting gift that Sahlins’s readers will treasure and cherish.”—Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age“The New Science of the Enchanted Universe is a work of profound scholarship and remarkable theoretical daring. The crowning achievement of a long and brilliant anthropological career, this book is destined to become a classic.”—Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, author of The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds“Marshall Sahlins has never published a book that didn’t change how anthropologists think about the ways humans live, and this is no exception. The New Science of the Enchanted Universe is peak Sahlins, at once a tour de force of anthropological argument and a great read.”—Joel Robbins, author of Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society“Marshall Sahlins recovers for us in this great last work the vivid presence of the local and immanent religions forced to the world’s margins by more abstract, transcendent faiths. No reader, religious or secular, can fail to be fascinated.”—Paul Seabright, author of The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life“In this capstone to a life’s work, Marshall Sahlins offers a sweeping vision of humanity and the gods, delivered with his inimitable blend of panache and provocation.”—Webb Keane, author of Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories“Who else but Marshall Sahlins could have retrieved from their ethnographical and historical vaults the enchanted stories of immanentism? This great voice of anthropology, still booming posthumously, not only uncovers worlds that flourish away from transcendence but also critically reveals how the social sciences have misportrayed these worlds and their plural denizens.”—Philippe Descola, author of Beyond Nature and Culture