Methodology & History in Anthropology

A range of meaningful objects exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their life . The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of mind over matter . It traces this mindset back to Protestant Christian influences that were secularized in the course of modern and colonial history.