Anthropologies of Revolution : Forging Time People and Worlds A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What can anthropological thinking contribute to the study of revolutions The first book length attempt to develop an anthropological approach to revolutions Anthropologies of Revolution proposes that revolutions should be seen as concerted attempts to radically reconstitute the worlds people inhabit. Viewing revolutions as all embracing world creating projects the authors ask readers to move beyond the idea of revolutions as acts of violent political rupture and instead view them as processes of societal transformation that penetrate deeply into the fabric of people’s lives unfolding and refolding the coordinates of human existence Frontmatter Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Multiplying Revolutions 1. Revolution as Event 2. State and Revolution 3. The Revolutionary Person 4. The Revolutionary Leader 5. Revolution and Ideology 6. Revolutionary Cosmologies Conclusion. Worlds in Revolution References Index