| Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment Contributor(s): Meyer, Birgit (Editor), Pels, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0804744637 ISBN-13: 9780804744638 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2003 Annotation: "This volume offers an innovative and intriguing collection of essays. Each chapter is grounded in detailed anthropological and historical research and offers stimulating theoretical considerations. The breadth of scholarship--addressing both the general implications of 'magic' and its place in the making of 'modernity, ' as demonstrated in a range of ethnographic contexts--suggest a broad readership." --Brad Weiss, The College of William & Mary "These essays demonstrate that even our most objective categories of social and cultural understanding are entangled in the constitutive undergrowth of our present circumstances. In their diverse and intriguing ways, they are all concerned with the modernist configuration of magic, as magic, so taken, configures modernism. Despite our liberal claims to transparency, reason, and secularism, they lay bare a world shaded by opacity, unreason, and blinkered faith." --Vincent Crapanzano, City University of New York |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Body, Mind & Spirit | Magick Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.4 |
| LCCN: 2002014751 |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6.36" W x 9.22" (1.53 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - New Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first book to explore comparatively how magic-usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern-is also at home in modernity. |