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A General Theory of Magic

A General Theory of Magic

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Classics

OccultAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415255503
ISBN13: 9780415255509
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 18 2001
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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 Lévi-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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