Primitive Magic
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Primitive Magic
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Author : Ernesto De Martino
language : en
Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
Release Date : 1988
Primitive Magic written by Ernesto De Martino and has been published by Avery Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Describes societies where magic is a way of life, where sorcerers, shamans, diviners and fire-walkers form powerful bonds with the psychic realities of nature. This is a thorough study that is both scholarly and readable.
Magic Science And Religion And Other Essays
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Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2014-04-10
Magic Science And Religion And Other Essays written by Bronislaw Malinowski and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-10 with Social Science categories.
This vintage book comprises three famous Malinowski essays on the subject of religion. Malinowski is one of the most important and influential anthropologists of all time. He is particularly renowned for his ability to combine the reality of human experience, with the cold calculations of science. An important collection of three of his most famous essays, "Magic, Science and Religion" provides its reader with a series of concepts concerning religion, magic, science, rite and myth. This is undertaken in an attempt to form a definite impression and understanding of the Trobrianders of New Guinea. The chapters of this book include: "Magic, Science and Religion", "Primitive Man and his Religion", "Rational Mastery by Man of his Surroundings", "Faith and Cult", "The Creative Acts of Religion", "Providence in Primitive Life", "Man's Selective Interest in Nature", etcetera. This book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Witchcraft Magic
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Author : Arthur S. Gregor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Witchcraft Magic written by Arthur S. Gregor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Magic categories.
A General Theory Of Magic
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Author : Marcel Mauss
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-07-05
A General Theory Of Magic written by Marcel Mauss and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-05 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Lévi-Strauss called, in an introduction to that edition, the astonishing modernity of the mind of one of the century's greatest thinkers. The book offers a fascinating snapshot of magic throughout various cultures as well as deep sociological and religious insights still very much relevant today. At a period when art, magic and science appear to be crossing paths once again, A General Theory of Magic presents itself as a classic for our times.
Taboo Magic Spirits
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Author : Eli Edward Burriss
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1972
Taboo Magic Spirits written by Eli Edward Burriss and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.
Magic
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Author : Ernesto De Martino
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Magic written by Ernesto De Martino and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Magic categories.
Taboo Magic Spirits
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Author : Eli Edward Burriss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
Taboo Magic Spirits written by Eli Edward Burriss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Magic Faith And Healing
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Author : Ari Kiev
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Magic Faith And Healing written by Ari Kiev and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Psychology categories.
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Making Magic
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Author : Randall Styers
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-01-15
Making Magic written by Randall Styers and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-15 with Social Science categories.
Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to distinctly modern models of religion and science. Yet this notion of magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. In Making Magic, Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that this persistence can best be explained in light of the Western drive to establish and secure distinctive norms for modern identity, norms based on narrow forms of instrumental rationality, industrious labor, rigidly defined sexual roles, and the containment of wayward forms of desire. Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientific rationality, and orderly social relations are brought into relief. Scholars have found magic an invaluable tool in their efforts to define the appropriate boundaries of religion and science. On a broader level, says Styers, magical thinking has served as an important foil for modernity itself. Debates over the nature of magic have offered a particularly rich site at which scholars have worked to define and to contest the nature of modernity and norms for life in the modern world.
Magic A History
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Author : Chris Gosden
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2021-10-12
Magic A History written by Chris Gosden and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with History categories.
An Oxford professor of archaeology explores the unique history of magic—the oldest and most neglected strand of human behavior and its resurgence today Three great strands of belief run through human history: Religion is the relationship with one god or many gods, masters of our lives and destinies. Science distances us from the world, turning us into observers and collectors of knowledge. And magic is direct human participation in the universe: we have influence on the world around us, and the world has influence on us. Over the last few centuries, magic has developed a bad reputation—thanks to the unsavory tactics of shady practitioners, and to a successful propaganda campaign on the part of religion and science, which denigrated magic as backward, irrational, and “primitive.” In Magic, however, the Oxford professor of archaeology Chris Gosden restores magic to its essential place in the history of the world—revealing it to be an enduring element of human behavior that plays an important role for individuals and cultures. From the curses and charms of ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish magic, to the shamanistic traditions of Eurasia, indigenous America, and Africa; from the alchemy of the Renaissance to the condemnation of magic in the colonial period and the mysteries of modern quantum physics—Gosden’s startling, fun, and colorful history supplies a missing chapter of the story of our civilization. Drawing on decades of research around the world—touching on the first known horoscope, a statue ordered into exile, and the mystical power of tattoos—Gosden shows what magic can offer us today, and how we might use it to rethink our relationship with the world. Magic is an original, singular, and sweeping work of scholarship, and its revelations will leave a spell on the reader.