Offers a fascinating snapshot of magic throughout various cultures as well as deep sociological and religious insights still very much relevant today. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRQX2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 204. . 2001. 2nd Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: A General Theory of Magic (Routledge Classics)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415255503
ISBN 13: 9780415255509
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: New

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First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude L�vi-Strauss called, in an introduction to that edition, the astonishing modernity of the mind of one of the century's greatest thinkers. The book offers a fascinating snapshot of magic throughout various cultures as well as deep sociological and religious insights still very much relevant today. At a period when art, magic and science appear to be crossing paths once again, A General Theory of Magic presents itself as a classic for our times.

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Marcel Mauss (1872 - 1950) French anthropologist and sociologist, author of The Gift, and, with Emile Durkheim, Primitive Classification.

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