Noted sociologist Worsley began this book as a study of the scientific knowledge of an Australian aboriginal tribe. Five years later he delivers a sprawling examination of such diverse topics as pre-European navigation in the Pacific, the rise of Western biomedicine, religion in the modern state, the secularization of Christmas, and the iconology of Disneyland. In language suitable for the lay reader as well as the cultural anthropologist uses these wide-ranging topics to argue that knowledge takes many forms and is by […]![]()
