Beyond Rationalism (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Berghahn Books, Incorporated, Herndon, 2003
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Paperback. This volume begs the reader to reconsider the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. Articles explore the different social practices that are typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual, and address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas. Without falling into the trap of mysticism, the authors succeed in breaking away from the dictates of a western rationalist understanding of these phenomena. In this book, the articles explore the different social practices that are typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual, and address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the America's. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- Beyond Rationalism (Paperback)
- Author
- Bruce Kapferer
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated, Herndon
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1571814183
- ISBN 13
- 9781571814180
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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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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