RT Book
T1 Magic: a theory from the South
T2 HAU books
A1 De Martino, Ernesto 1908-1965
A2 Zinn, Dorothy Louise
A2 De Martino, Ernesto 1908-1965
LA English
PP Chicago, Ill.
PB HAU Books
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/845390600
AB "This new translation of Sud e magia, his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcrafts 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 paradigmatic example of the complex dynamics between dominant and subaltern cultures. Far ahead of its time, Magic is still relevant as anthropologists continue to wrestle with modernity's relationship with magical thinking"--Back cover
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-200 and index
CN GN475.3
SN 9780990505099
SN 099050509X
K1 Magic : Italy, Southern
K1 Folklore : Italy, Southern
K1 Ceremonial Behavior
K1 Disease
K1 Folklore
K1 Ethnology
K1 Magic
K1 Italy, Southern
K1 History
K1 Manners and customs
K1 Religion and Medicine
K1 Basilicata (Italy)
K1 Italy
K1 Social life and customs
K1 Basilicata
K1 Basilicata (Italy) : Social life and customs