The anthropology of magic / Susan Greenwood.
"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 'e...
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Mystical mentality
- Participation: a key to understanding magic
- Magical connections and associations
- Magical consciousness
- A mythological language of magic
- Webs of beliefs
- Magic in everyday life
- The nature of reality
- "Not only, but also": a new attitude toward science.