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Magic and Fetishism Paperback / softback - 2012

by Alfred C. Haddon

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Paperback / softback. New. In this work, published in 1910, anthropologist A. C. Haddon (1855-1940) turns his expertise to folk religion, exploring magical and fetishistic practices from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. A useful introduction to its topic, it is also an important work in the history of modern anthropology.

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  • Title Magic and Fetishism
  • Author Alfred C. Haddon
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition New
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date 2012-06-14
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9781108044424
  • ISBN 9781108044424 / 1108044425
  • Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.27 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 0.69 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: New Age
  • Dewey Decimal Code 133.4

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'A pioneer of modern anthropology', A. C. Haddon (1855-1940) contributed to the fields of embryology and evolutionary science before turning his interests to human civilisation and its history. In this work, first published in 1910, Haddon makes use of his wide-ranging knowledge of folk rituals and religious beliefs to introduce readers to basic principles of sympathetic magic, divination, talismanic powers and fetishism. A strong believer in the importance of preserving local religious practices and beliefs, Haddon uses the work to document customs from Britain to West Africa, America to Australia. Topics include forms of contagious magic, premised on a mutual influence between objects; amulets and talismans; magical names and words; and divination. In the second portion of the book, devoted to fetishism, Haddon offers an authoritative description of the fetish as a 'habitation, temporary or permanent, of a spiritual being', establishing basic definitions for an important field of cultural research.

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