Search results for “[Subject: magic]”

• Author(s): Bernd-Christian Otto | Michael Stausberg • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Magick StudiesMagic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic s...

• Author(s): Susan Greenwood • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialMagic is arguably the least understood subject in anthropology today. Exotic and fascinating, it offers us a glimpse i...

• Author(s): Sarali Gintsburg | Kenneth Usongo • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AfricanMagical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a trans...

• Author(s): Bernd-Christian Otto | Michael Stausberg • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Magick StudiesMagic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic s...

• Author(s): Michael D. Bailey • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralMagic: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to magic in world history and contemporary societies. Presenting magic as a global pheno...

• Author(s): Michael D. Bailey • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralMagic: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to magic in world history and contemporary societies. Presenting Magic as a global pheno...

• Author(s): Laura White • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyThe Play of Belief in Nineteenth-Century Fairy Tales and Fairy Narratives examines the range of playful negoti...

• Author(s): Susan Greenwood • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialMagic is arguably the least understood subject in anthropology today. Exotic and fascinating, it offers us a glimpse i...

• Author(s): Naomi Janowitz • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Magick StudiesA lively volume exploring the use and abuse of the word 'magic' in late antique texts.

• Author(s): Radcliffe G. Edmonds III | Carolina López-Ruiz | Sofía Torallas-Tovar • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Magick StudiesThis volume explores aspects of ancient magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranea...

• Author(s): Susan Greenwood • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAnthropology's long and complex relationship to magic has been strongly influenced by western science and notions of r...

• Author(s): Darren Oldridge • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThe Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England reflects upon the boundaries between the natural and the otherworldly in earl...

• Author(s): Sandra Zalman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Movements - ModernismConsuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ...

• Author(s): Ni-Chen Sung • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular CultureFocusing on Disney's production of Shanghai Disneyland, this book examines how the Chinese state and the local market influence Disney's owner...

• Author(s): Susan Greenwood • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThis book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with...

• Author(s): Eugene V. Subbotsky • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Magick StudiesScience and Magic in the Modern World is a unique text that explores the role of magical thinking in everyday life. It provides an excel...

• Author(s): Bronislaw Malinowski • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFirst published in 1922, this classic text examines the extensive and complex trading system maintained by the Tr...

• Author(s): Naomi Janowitz • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Magick StudiesA lively volume exploring the use and abuse of the word 'magic' in late antique texts.

• Author(s): Anannya Dasgupta • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DramaThis book began with a simple question: when readers such as us encounter the term magic or figures of magicians in early modern texts, dramatic or ...

• Author(s): Alex Dennis • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralMagic, Science and Society investigates the way the 'rationality debate' has developed over the last century, from E.E. Evans-Pritchard's s...

• Author(s): Maggie Ann Bowers • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Graphic Arts - IllustrationThis invaluable handbook, provides clear definitions and distinctions between the terms and helps to navigate the complexitie...

• Author(s): Katharina Rein • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThis book explores stage conjuring during its "golden age," from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings hi...

• Author(s): Rosalind Mayo | Christina Moutsou • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Movements - PsychoanalysisThe question of what it means to be a mother is a very contentious topic in psychoanalysis and in wider societ...

• Author(s): Silke Trzcionka • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Indigenous, Folk & TribalMagic and the Supernatural in Fourth Century Syria presents an in-depth investigation of a variety of 'magical' practices wit...

• Author(s): Agnes Horvath • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryThis book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, combining insights from historica...

• Author(s): Lisa Folkmarson Käll | Kristin Zeiler • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Gender StudiesIntersections of Feminist Technoscience and Phenomenology: Subjectivity, Embodiment, Agency brings together feminist p...

• Author(s): Karel Van Den Bosch • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis title was first published in 2002: An investigation into the problem of identifying the poor and determining the poverty line....

• Author(s): Paola Zambelli • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Magick StudiesAstrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and Islamic World to Renaissance Europe brings together ten of Paola Zambelli's papers on the sub...

• Author(s): Elissa Hare • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThe book, first published in 1988, examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre. The author observes h...

• Author(s): Lorand B. Szalay | James Deese • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionOriginally published in 1978, Subjective Meaning and Culture presents a framework and a method for the ...

• Author(s): Shraddha Chatterjee • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social PsychologyQueer Politics in India: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects explores the contemporary queer subject in India during a critical time fo...

• Author(s): Robert Willim | Orvar Löfgren • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralWhat happens when economies 'heat up'? This book looks at the 1990s, years of intense economic experimentation, when b...

• Author(s): Gisela Bock | Susan James • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryHistorically, as well as more recently, women's emancipation has been seen in two ways: sometimes as the right to...

• Author(s): Behzad Zerehdaran • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Regional StudiesThis book delves into the history of subjective rights within the context of 19th-century Iran, specifically during the eventful Qajar e...

• Author(s): Federico Barbierato • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - ItalyThis book investigates the circulation, regulation, and interpretation of magical texts, focusing on the Clavicula Salomonis (Key of Sol...

• Author(s): Jordan Fallon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Industries - Hospitality, Travel & TourismCulinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated w...