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Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

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study of magic

  • In magic: Postmodern dialogue

    …of Rationality (1990), in which Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah deconstructs the European history of the progress model and the work of anthropologists from Tylor forward. Other anthropologists have questioned the model of the rise and decline of magic in European thought articulated in Keith Thomas’s groundbreaking Religion and the Decline of…

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