by Birgit Meyer, Peter Pels · Stanford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780804744645
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«Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment» is a book of essays edited by Birgit Meyer and Peter Pels, in paperback.
The volume addresses for the first time in a comparative way how magic, usually presented as the opposite of the modern, is also part of modernity. The essays, based on anthropological and historical research, analyze the tensions between revelation and concealment and the role of magic in the constitution of modern societies.
First edition published by Stanford University Press in 2003; 400 pages; text in English; ISBN 9780804744645.
For readers interested in anthropology, philosophy of religion, and cultural studies.
