Mauss, Marcel (1872-1950) [Συγγραφέας]. A general theory of magic

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Author Mauss, Marcel (1872-1950)

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A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Levi-Strauss called, in an introduction to that edition, the astonishing modernity of the mind of ...more

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