Magic's Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy

by Graham M. Jones

Book Overview

In Magic's Reason, Graham M. Jones tells the entwined stories of anthropology and entertainment magic. The two pursuits are not as separate as they may seem at first. As Jones shows, they not only matured around the same time, but they also shared mutually reinforcing stances toward modernity and rationality. It is no historical accident, for example, that colonial ethnographers drew analogies between Western magicians and native ritual performers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022651868X
• ISBN13: 9780226518688
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"