Magic and social tension
This chapter looks at magic as a discourse of suspicion, accusation, imagination, as well as deployments of ritual materials that arise in situations of social tension. The chapter first looks at individual cases of binding and curse rites – e.g., as efforts to gain supremacy in competitive circumst...
| Subtitles: | Dimensions of a category magic |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Brill
2019
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| In: |
Guide to the study of ancient magic
Year: 2019, Pages: 746-774 |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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