A General Theory of Magic (Routledge Classics) - Hardcover

Mauss, Marcel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415255503 ISBN 13: 9780415255509

Verlag: Routledge, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415255503
• ISBN 13: 9780415255509
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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