Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity: An Anthropology of Science

by Francesca Rochberg

Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others, the physical ontology of modern science no longer functions as a standard by which to understand other orderings of reality, whether from ethnographical or historical sources. Because premodern and non-western sources attest to a plurality of sciences practiced in accordance with different ways of worldmaking from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009522337
• ISBN13: 9781009522335
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages