Anthropology's lengthy and intricate courting to magic has been strongly inspired by way of western technology and notions of rationality. This e-book takes a fresh new examine smooth magic as practised via modern Pagans in Britain. It makes a speciality of what Pagans see because the essence of magic - a communique with an otherworldly fact. interpreting problems with id, gender and morality, the writer argues that the otherworld types a significant defining attribute of magical practice.
Integrating an experiential ethnographic strategy with an research of magic, this ebook asks penetrating questions on the character of otherworldly wisdom and argues that our medical frameworks desire re-envisioning. it's special in supplying an insider's view of the way magic is practised in modern western culture.
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