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Black Magic, White Magic & the Theory of Magic

Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

by Bronisław Malinowski

Malinowski's influential essays arguing that magic serves a practical and psychological function where technical knowledge runs out, drawn from his fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands. A key text in the anthropology of magic.

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