Description - Wandering God by Morris Berman
In the conclusion to his trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Berman (Johns Hopkins U.) discusses human hunter- gatherer ancestry and the paradoxical mode of perception that it involved, showing how a sense of alertness, or secular/sacred immediacy, subsequently got buried beneath sedentary civilization, religion, and vertical power relationships. He explores the meaning of Paleolithic art, the origins of social inequality, the nature of cross-cultural child rearing, the relationship between women and agriculture, the world view of present day nomadic peoples, and the emergence of paradoxical consciousness in 20th-century philosophy.
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