Beyond Rationalism (Paperback)

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 multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.