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Magic and Modernity - Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment (Paperback, New)
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Magic and Modernity - Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment (Paperback, New)
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Magic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how
magic-usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern-is also
something that is at home in modernity. "Magic" and "modernity" are
rarely regarded as belonging together. Evolutionism regarded magic
as quintessentially "unmodern." Although psychologists and romantic
artists have sometimes declared magic to be a human universal, few
modern scholars in the humanities and social sciences have studied
how modern culture and institutions incorporated and even produced
magic. This book is the first to adopt a comparative approach to
the study of magic as something that has a place in modernity, and
that helped to constitute modern society at local and global
levels. The essays in this collection contribute to recent
discussions in anthropology, cultural studies, comparative
literature, history, and sociology that increasingly question the
extent to which modern self-conceptions are accurate reflections of
a state of affairs in the world rather than cultural interventions.
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