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B Magic: This trade softcover, 184 pages w index, is like new. Red spine, white title.
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- Title
- Magic: The Basics
- Author
- Bailey, Michael D.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1138809616
- ISBN 13
- 9781138809611
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Magic: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to magic in world history and contemporary societies. Presenting magic as a global phenomenon which has manifested in all human cultures, this book takes a thematic approach which explores the historical, social, and cultural aspects of magic.
Key features include:
- attempts to define magic either in universal or more particular terms, and to contrast it with other broad and potentially fluid categories such as religion and science;
- an examination of different forms of magical practice and the purposes for which magic has been used;
- debates about magic’s effectiveness, its reality, and its morality;
- an exploration of magic’s association with certain social factors, such as gender, ethnicity and education, among others.
Offering a global perspective of magic from antiquity through to the modern era and including a glossary of key terms, suggestions for further reading and case studies throughout, Magic: The Basics is essential reading for anyone seeking to learn more about the academic study of magic.
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About the Author
Michael D. Bailey is Professor of History at Iowa State University. He is founding co-editor of the journal Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft and has published extensively on the history of witchcraft and superstition in medieval Europe.
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