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Black Magic, White Magic & the Theory of Magic
Magic
A History
- First published2020
- TraditionBlack & White Magic
- Shelf83 books
The Oxford archaeologist Chris Gosden surveys magic across human history, from the Palaeolithic to the present and from Mesopotamia and China to Europe and the Americas. He argues that magic, religion and science form a braided triple helix in which magic, centred on human participation in the world, has never disappeared.






