Magic and Modernity Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment 1st Edition by Birgit Meyer, Peter Pels 9780804744645 0804744645

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ISBN 10: 0804744645
ISBN 13: 9780804744645 
Author: Birgit Meyer, Peter Pels 

Magic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how magic―usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern―is also something that is at home in modernity. “Magic” and “modernity” are rarely regarded as belonging together. Evolutionism regarded magic as quintessentially “unmodern.” Although psychologists and romantic artists have sometimes declared magic to be a human universal, few modern scholars in the humanities and social sciences have studied how modern culture and institutions incorporated and even produced magic.

This book is the first to adopt a comparative approach to the study of magic as something that has a place in modernity, and that helped to constitute modern society at local and global levels. The essays in this collection contribute to recent discussions in anthropology, cultural studies, comparative literature, history, and sociology that increasingly question the extent to which modern self-conceptions are accurate reflections of a state of affairs in the world rather than cultural interventions.

Magic and Modernity Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment 1st Table of contents:

1. Religion and the Modern
2. Spirit Possession and the Memory of
3. Robert Kaplan and Juju Journalism in Sierra Leones
4. The Haitian Revolution and
5. Colonialism and the Politics of Magic
6. The Role of Experts
7. The Magical Power of the Printed Word
8. Ghanaian Popular Cinema and the Magic in and of Film
9. Modern Medicine Between Magic
10. Alfred Wallace Edward Tylor
11. Another Theory of Magic
12. Notes
13. References
14. Contributors

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