How Long to Read At the Mountains’ Altar

How Long Does it Take to Read At the Mountains’ Altar?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read At the Mountains’ Altar by Frank Salomon

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In high-Andean Peru, Rapaz village maintains a temple to mountain beings who command water and weather. By examining the ritual practices and belief systems of an Andean community, this book provides students with rich understandings of unfamiliar religious experiences and delivers theories of religion from the realm of abstraction. From core field encounters, each chapter guides readers outward in a different theoretical direction, successively exploring the main paths in the anthropology of religion. As well as addressing classical approaches in the anthropology of religion to rural modernity, Salomon engages with newer currents such as cognitive-evolution models, power-oriented critiques, the ontological reworking of relativism, and the "new materialism" in the context of a deep-rooted Andean ethos. He reflects on central questions such as: Why does sacred ritualism seem almost universal? Is it seated in social power, human psychology, symbolic meanings, or cultural logics? Are varied theories compatible? Is "religion" still a tenable category in the post-colonial world? At the Mountains’ Altar is a valuable resource for students taking courses on the anthropology of religion, Andean cultures, Latin American ethnography, religious studies, and indigenous peoples of the Americas.

How long is At the Mountains’ Altar?

At the Mountains’ Altar by Frank Salomon is 236 pages long, and a total of 60,416 words.

This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read At the Mountains’ Altar Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read At the Mountains’ Altar aloud.

What Reading Level is At the Mountains’ Altar?

At the Mountains’ Altar is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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