Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality - Brossura

Tambiah, Stanley

 
9780521376310: Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality

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This accessible and illuminating book explores the classical opposition between magic, science and religion.

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Recensione

"...this book will be of immense benefit to all those involved in the study of the mental and cultural life of humankind." Journal of the American Academy of Religion

"This enormously erudite but engaging study offers a tough, critical, and morally sensitive perspective on the history of central issues in anthropological theory. More than either a theoretical manifesto or a philosophical disquisition, it makes the anthropological project and the history of ideas mutually relevant to a degree rarely achieved before now." Choice

Descrizione del libro

In the Western tradition, the boundaries between magic, science and religion have been continually contested. In this straightforward text, Professor Tambiah shows that modern anthropological theorists drew upon the classical sources but introduced new, ethnographic case materials.

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9780521374866: Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521374863 ISBN 13:  9780521374866
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1990
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