Afterlives of Affect: Science, Religion, and an Edgewalker's Spirit - Paperback

Afterlives of Affect: Science, Religion, and an Edgewalker's Spirit - Paperback

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Afterlives of Affect: Science, Religion, and an Edgewalker's Spirit - Paperback

Afterlives of Affect: Science, Religion, and an Edgewalker's Spirit - Paperback

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by Matthew C. Watson (Author)

In Afterlives of Affect Matthew C. Watson considers the life and work of artist and Mayanist scholar Linda Schele (1942-98) as a point of departure for what he calls an excitable anthropology. As part of a small collective of scholars who devised the first compelling arguments that Maya hieroglyphs were a fully grammatical writing system, Schele popularized the decipherment of hieroglyphs by developing narratives of Maya politics and religion in popular books and public workshops. In this experimental, person-centered ethnography, Watson shows how Schele's sense of joyous discovery and affective engagement with research led her to traverse and disrupt borders between religion, science, art, life, death, and history. While acknowledging critiques of Schele's work and the idea of discovery more generally, Watson contends that affect and wonder should lie at the heart of any reflexive anthropology. With this singular examination of Schele and the community she built around herself and her work, Watson furthers debates on more-than-human worlds, spiritualism, modernity, science studies, affect theory, and the social conditions of knowledge production.

Author Biography

Matthew C. Watson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College.

Number of Pages: 280
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.7 x 5.8 IN
Publication Date: August 28, 2020

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