Beyond Rationalism: Sorcery, Magic and Ritual in Contemporary Realities: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery - Brossura

 
9781571814180: Beyond Rationalism: Sorcery, Magic and Ritual in Contemporary Realities: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery
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ISBN 10: 1571814183 ISBN 13: 9781571814180
Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2003

Sinossi

This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal. In doing so the authors are concerned to break away from the dictates of a western externalist rationalist understanding of these phenomena without falling into the trap of mysticism. The articles address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Adjunct Professor at James Cook University and Honorary Professor at University College London.



Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Adjunct Professor at James Cook University and Honorary Professor at University College London.

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Editore
Berghahn Books
Data di pubblicazione
2003
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1571814183
ISBN 13 
9781571814180
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
200
Redattore
Kapferer Bruce
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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