General Theory of Magic (Routledge Classics)

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Summary: What is Magic About?
Review: After reading this book, I still haven't got a clue what magic is about. This one goes to the trash bin.

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Summary: What is Magic About?
Review: After reading this book, I still haven't got a clue what magic is about. This one goes to the trash bin.

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Summary: Excellent Academic Writing
Review: Seems to be excellent academic writing from someone who doesn't know about real magic.

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Summary: A classic of Anthropology!
Review: This book, first published in 1902-1903, in co-authorship with H. Hubert, is one of the classics of Anthropology. Marcel Mauss, disciple and nephew of great French sociologist Emile Durkheim, strongly influenced generations of anthropologists, including Claude Lévi-Strauss. The book stablished a new pattern for understanding the magical and religious phenomena. Unfortunaly, the two previous reviewrs seems to have looking for something very different. It is not a how-to-do book, it is for people interested in the Social Sciences.