ANTH-2108 Lecture Notes - Traditional Witchcraft, Swiss Army Knife, Anglo-Saxon Runes
9 Dec 2013
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Magic: ways in which a person can compel the supernatural to behave in certain ways. Sorcery: compelling the supernatural to behave in certain ways, usually with evil intent. Magician: a practitioner who specializes in controlling the supernatural through magic. Sorcerer: magician who specializes in antisocial, evil magic. Magic is logical thinking based on false premises. Magic is for the individual, while religion is for the community remember, he defined religion by its function of social solidarity. Text definition: compelling the supernatural to behave in certain ways. From his work we get many of the categories of magic in your text (homeopathic, imitative, contagious, etc. ) Tylor and frazer share the evolutionary model of magic religion science. Malinowski also saw magic as rational, a pseudoscience, but for him it was defined by its link with practical outcomes. A methodology for coming to an understanding of our world through objective observations, experimentation, and the development of hypotheses and theories.
