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Magic and Fetishism (Paperback)
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Magic and Fetishism (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
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'A pioneer of modern anthropology', A. C. Haddon (1855 1940)
contributed to the fields of embryology and evolutionary science
before turning his interests to human civilisation and its history.
In this work, first published in 1910, Haddon makes use of his
wide-ranging knowledge of folk rituals and religious beliefs to
introduce readers to basic principles of sympathetic magic,
divination, talismanic powers and fetishism. A strong believer in
the importance of preserving local religious practices and beliefs,
Haddon uses the work to document customs from Britain to West
Africa, America to Australia. Topics include forms of contagious
magic, premised on a mutual influence between objects; amulets and
talismans; magical names and words; and divination. In the second
portion of the book, devoted to fetishism, Haddon offers an
authoritative description of the fetish as a 'habitation, temporary
or permanent, of a spiritual being', establishing basic definitions
for an important field of cultural research.
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