Beyond Rationalism : Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery

✍ Scribed by Bruce Kapferer

Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 282
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Subjects

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