Magic's Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy
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In Magic's Reason, Graham M. Jones tells the entwined stories of anthropology and entertainment magic. The two pursuits are not as separate as they may seem at first. As Jones shows, they not only matured around the same time, but they also shared mutually reinforcing stances toward modernity and rationality. It is no historical accident, for example, that colonial ethnographers drew analogies between Western magicians and native ritual performers,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:022651868X
ISBN13:9780226518688
Release Date:December 2017
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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