Between Magic and Rationality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Magic and Rationality write by Vibeke Steffen. This book was released on 2015-04-21. Between Magic and Rationality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Between Magic and Reality, Vibeke Steffen, Steffen Jöhncke, and Kirsten Marie Raahauge bring together a diverse range of ethnographies that examine and explore the forms of reflection, action, and interaction that govern the ways different contemporary societies create and challenge the limits of reason. The essays here visit an impressive array of settings, including international scientific laboratories, British spiritualist meetings, Chinese villages, Danish rehabilitation centers, and Uzbeki homes, where they encounter a diverse assortment of people whose beliefs and concerns exhibit an unusual but central contemporary dichotomy: scientific reason versus spiritual/paranormal belief. Exploring the paradoxical way these modes of thought push against reason's boundaries, they offer a deep look at the complex ways they coexist, contest one another, and are ultimately intertwined. Vibeke Steffen is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, where Steffen Jöncke is senior advisor. Kirsten Marie Raahauge is associate professor in the School of Design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality
Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality write by Stanley J. Tambiah. This book was released on 1990-03-22. Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This accessible and illuminating book explores the classical opposition between magic, science and religion.
Magic's Reason
Magic's Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic's Reason write by Graham M. Jones. This book was released on 2017-12-06. Magic's Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, who, in their view, hoodwinked gullible people into believing their sleight of hand was divine. Using French magicians’ engagements with North African ritual performers as a case study, Jones shows how magic became enshrined in anthropological reasoning. Acknowledging the residue of magic’s colonial origins doesn’t require us to dispense with it. Rather, through this radical reassessment of classic anthropological ideas, Magic’s Reason develops a new perspective on the promise and peril of cross-cultural comparison.
Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine
Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine write by Manfred Horstmanshoff. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the first time, medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world are studied side by side and compared. Early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen, Aelius Aristides, Vindicianus, the Talmud. The focus is the degree of "rationality" or "irrationality" in the various ways of medical thought and treatment. Fifteen specialists contributed thoughtful and well-documented chapters on important issues.
Magic
Magic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic write by Ernesto De Martino. This book was released on 2015. Magic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino is now recognized as one of the most original thinkers in the field. This book is testament to de Martino's innovation and engagement with Hegelian historicism and phenomenology--a work of ethnographic theory way ahead of its time. This new translation of Sud e Magia, his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcraft in southern Italy, shows how De Martino is not interested in the question of whether magic is rational or irrational but rather in why it came to be perceived as a problem of knowledge in the first place. Setting his exploration within his wider, pathbreaking theorization of ritual, as well as in the context of his politically sensitive analysis of the global south's historical encounters with Western science, he presents the development of magic and ritual in Enlightenment Naples as a paradigmatic example of the complex dynamics between dominant and subaltern cultures. Far ahead of its time, Magic is still relevant as anthropologists continue to wrestle with modernity's relationship with magical thinking.
