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, Reason, and Experience
Magic, Reason, and Experience - 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, Reason, and Experience write by Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Magic, Reason, and Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of the origins and progress of Greek science focuses especially on the interaction between scientific and traditional patterns of thought from the sixth to the fourth century BC. It begins with an examination of how particular Greek authors deployed the category of "magic," sometimes attacking its beliefs and practices; these attacks are then related to their background in Greek medicine and philosophical thought. In his second chapter Lloyd outlines developments in the theory and practice of argument in Greek science and assesses their significance. He next discuses the progress of empirical research as a scientific tool from the Presocratics to Aristotle. Finally, he considers why the Greeks invented science, their contribution to its history, and the social, economic, ideological and political factors that had a bearing on its growth.
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.
Between Magic and Rationality
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's Child
Magic's Child - 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 Child write by Justine Larbalestier. This book was released on 2007. Magic's Child available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reason Cansino must uncover the secret of the magic in her family's background to save the lives of her friends Tom and Jay-tee.
