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Magic : a very short introduction / Owen Davies.
LIBRA BF1621 .D38 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Owen, 1969-
- Series:
- Very short introductions ; 299.
- Very short introductions ; 299
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Magic.
- Witchcraft.
- Physical Description:
- 135 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- A wide-ranging overview of how magic has been defined, understood and practiced over the millennia introduces it in today's world as a real force that helps people overcome misfortune, poverty and illness.
- Contents:
- Introduction; 1. Anthropologies of magic; 2. Historical perspectives; 3. All in the mind?; 4. Writing magic; 5. Practising magic; 6. Magic and the modern world; Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-130) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199588023
- 9780199588022
- OCLC:
- 749871159
- Publisher Number:
- 99948264986
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