Magic, science, religion, and the scope of rationality /
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Cambridge, Inglaterra :
Cambridge University Press,
1990.
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Sommario:
- List of plates
- Foreword Alfred Harris
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Magic, science and religion in Western thought: anthropology's intellectual legacy
- 2. Anthropology's intellectual legacy (continued)
- 3. Sir Edward Tylor versus Bronislaw Malinowski: is magic false science or meaningful performance?
- 4. Malinowski's demarcations and his exposition of the magical art
- 5. Multiple orderings of reality: the debate initiated by Levy-Bruhl
- 6. Rationality, relativism, the translation, and commensurability of cultures
- 7. Modern science and its extensions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.