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A General Theory of Magic

By Marcel Mauss

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2001
ISBN
9780415255509, 0415255503, 0415253969, 9780415253963, 9780203996140
LCC
BF1611 .M38 2001
Open Library ID
OL3949951M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
960 kB (983303 bytes)
Series
Routledge classics
Edition
2
Pages
190\190
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-31 00:48:14

Description

I first heard of Marcel Mauss while reading Daniel O'Keefe's *Stolen Lightning* and knew I wanted to learn more on Mauss, who is not that well known here in the United States.

Mauss mentions sympathetic magic as being part of many cultures as does O'Keefe. Mauss might have been interested in Jung's concept of synchronicity as a form of sympathetic magic or even the concept of apophenia if he had lived when the word was created in the late 1950s.

This book does not explain how magic works. Those looking for a how-to will be disappointed as another reviewer has pointed out.

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