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Das Buch von Gabriela Jurosz-Landa ist das Ergebnis einer Verbindung der Autorin, einer unabhängigen Ethnologin, mit den Quiché-Maya Guatemalas, die sich über ein Vierteljahrhundert entwickelt hat und schließlich im April 2015 zu ihrer Initiation als “day keeper” (ajq‘ij) führte, ein Amt, das sie für das westliche Verständnis als “shaman-priestess” übersetzt.

Attempts to lend broad archaeological support to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Power (1985) by discussing certain major anthropological themes in the Judeo-Christian cosmology that seem particulary relevant to Western economic behavior -- especially consumption issues -- in the eighteenth century. The pleasure-pain principle of human action, the idea of an irresistible & egoistical human nature underlying social behavior, the sense of society as an order of power or coercion, & a confidence in the greater providential value of human suffering figure among these themes. It is also argued that they continue to inhabit mainstream Western social science -- to the bedevilment of our understandings of other peoples. Comments are offered by: Thomas Bargatzky, Nurit Bird-David, John Clammer, Jacques Hamel, Keiji Maegawa, & Jukka Siikala. In a Reply, Sahlins addresses criticisms that he has (1) overgeneralized, & (2) failed to specify alternative anthropologies. 154 References. Adapted from the source document.