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Stolen lightning : the social theory of magic.
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ISBN: 0394716345 Year: 1983 Publisher: New York Random House

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Magic --- Magic --- Social aspects

Art that heals : the image as medicine in Ethiopia.
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ISBN: 0945802196 3791316060 Year: 1997 Publisher: München Prestel


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Amulets.
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ISBN: 0709148976 9780709148975 Year: 1975 Publisher: London Robert Hale & company

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Madelas Tierleben : Tiere in Zauberei und Alltag bei Zulu und Tonga
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ISBN: 388312110X Year: 1992 Publisher: Kiel Schmidt & Klaunig

Magic and modernity : interfaces of revelation and concealment
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ISBN: 0804744637 0804744645 9780804744645 9780804744638 Year: 2003 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press,

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Magic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how magic& usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern& is also something that is at home in modernity. & Magic& and & modernity& are rarely regarded as belonging together. Evolutionism regarded magic as quintessentially & unmodern.& Although psychologists and romantic artists have sometimes declared magic to be a human universal, few modern scholars in the humanities and social sciences have studied how modern culture and institutions incorporated and even produced magic. This book is the first to adopt a comparative approach to the study of magic as something that has a place in modernity, and that helped to constitute modern society at local and global levels. The essays in this collection contribute to recent discussions in anthropology, cultural studies, comparative literature, history, and sociology that increasingly question the extent to which modern self-conceptions are accurate reflections of a state of affairs in the world rather than cultural interventions.


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Magic, witchcraft, and religion : an anthropological study of the supernatural
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ISBN: 0874846854 0874848989 Year: 1989 Publisher: Mountain View Mayfield

Magie et écriture au Congo.
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ISBN: 2738424600 9782738424600 Year: 1994 Publisher: Paris Harmattan

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Communications d'un colloque qui s'est tenu à Brazzaville du 31 mai au 2 juin 1993, et qui a réuni des écrivains et des universitaires africains et européens pour examiner comment les peuples, à divers moments de leur histoire, ont arpenté les territoires du rêve, en recourant à un mode de pensée magique. Parmi les participants, Annie Le Brun et Radovan Ivsic, à l'origine du projet. ©Electre 2017


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Der einbeinige Gott : Laduma Madela als Portraitist und Barde des Zulu-Schöpfergottes und der Häuptlinge seines Klans von mythischen Zeiten an : Die Lobpreisungen, izibongo, auf Zulu und Deutsch
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ISBN: 3883120995 Year: 1993 Publisher: Kiel Kommissionsverlag Schmidt & Klaunig


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The anthropology of magic /.
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ISBN: 9781845206710 9781845206703 1845206703 1845206711 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford Berg

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"Magic is arguably the least understood subject in anthropology today. Exotic and fascinating, it offers us a glimpse into another world but it also threatens to undermine the foundations of anthropology due to its supposed irrational and non-scientific nature. Magic has thus often been 'explained away' by social or psychological reduction. The Anthropology of Magic redresses the balance and brings magic, as an aspect of consciousness, into focus through the use of classic texts and cutting-edge research. Suitable for student and scholar alike, The Anthropology of Magic updates a classical anthropological debate concerning the nature of human experience. A key theme is that human beings everywhere have the potential for magical consciousness. Taking a new approach to some perennial topics in anthropology--such as shamanism, mythology, witchcraft, and healing--the book raises crucial theoretical and methodological issues to provide the reader with an engaging and critical understanding of the dynamics of magic"--Provided by publisher.

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