The Anthropology of Magic - Paperback

by Susan Greenwood (Author)

Magic is arguably the least understood subject in anthropology today. Exotic and fascinating, it offers us a glimpse into another world but it also threatens to undermine the foundations of anthropology due to its supposed irrational and non-scientific nature. Magic has thus often been 'explained away' by social or psychological reduction.

Author Biography

Susan Greenwood is Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Sussex