Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope

Klappentext This accessible and illuminating book explores the classical opposition between magic! science and religion. Zusammenfassung In the Western tradition! the boundaries between magic! science and religion have been continually contested. In this straightforward text! Professor Tambiah shows that modern anthropological theorists drew upon the classical sources but introduced new! ethnographic case materials. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; Foreword Alfred Harris; Acknowledgements; 1. Magic, science and religion in Western thought: anthropology's intellectual legacy; 2. Anthropology's intellectual legacy (continued); 3. Sir Edward Tylor versus Bronislaw Malinowski: is magic false science or meaningful performance?; 4. Malinowski's demarcations and his exposition of the magical art; 5. Multiple orderings of reality: the debate initiated by Lévy-Bruhl; 6. Rationality, relativism, the translation and commensurability of cultures; 7. Modern science and its extensions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Stanley J. Tambiah, Stanley Jey Tambiah, Stanley Jeyara Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521374866
• ISBN: 978-0-521-37486-6
• Series: British Lives
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous