âThis volume offers an innovative and intriguing collection of essays. Each chapter is grounded in detailed anthropological and historical research and offers stimulating theoretical considerations. The breadth of scholarshipâaddressing both the general implications of âmagicâ and its place in the making of âmodernity,â as demonstrated in a range of ethnographic contextsâsuggest a broad readership.â âBrad Weiss,The College of William & Mary
âThese essays demonstrate that even our most objective categories of social and cultural understanding are entangled in the constitutive undergrowth of our present circumstances. In their diverse and intriguing ways, they are all concerned with the modernist configuration of magic, as magic, so taken, configures modernism. Despite our liberal claims to transparency, reason, and secularism, they lay bare a world shaded by opacity, unreason, and blinkered faith.â âVincent Crapanzano,City University of New York
Categories:
- Religion & Spirituality
- Occult & Paranormal
- Magic Studies
- Occult & Paranormal
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Author : Birgit Meyer,Peter Pels
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2003-06-19
Number Of Pages : 400
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0804744645
ISBN-13 : 9780804744645
Item weight : 1.24 lb
Dimensions : 0.98 in x 6.36 in x 8.96 in
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