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Magic – A Theory from the South (Paperback)
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Magic – A Theory from the South (Paperback)
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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 a
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 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
today as anthropologists continue to wrestle with modernity's
relationship with magical thinking.
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