Magic : a theory from the south / Ernesto de Martino ; translated and annotated by Dorothy Louise Zinn.

"This new translation of Sud e magia, his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcrafts in southern Italy, shows how de Martino is not interested in the question of whether magic is rational or irrational but rather in why it came to be perceived as a problem of knowledge in the first place. S...

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Main Author: De Martino, Ernesto, 1908-1965 (Author)
Other Authors: Zinn, Dorothy Louise (Translator, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: Chicago : Hau Books, [2015]
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Uniform Title:Sud e magie.