Coral Gardens and Their Magic, properly Coral Gardens and Their Magic Volume I: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in...

Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929) and Coral Gardens and Their Magic (1935). The book consists of twenty-two chapters divided into...

language and magic is due to a belief in the inherent ability of words to influence the universe. Bronisław Malinowski, in Coral Gardens and their Magic (1935)...

the other two being Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) and Coral Gardens and Their Magic (1935). In the preface Malinowski says that sexuality "dominates...

frequently in cultures based in polytheism, animism, or shamanism. Religion and magic became conceptually separated in the West where the distinction arose...

Apotropaic magic (from Greek αποτρέπω, apotrépō 'to ward off') or protective magic is a type of magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences, as...

Malinowski's Coral Gardens and their Magic is published. Karl Mannheim's Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction is published. Margaret Mead's Sex and Temperament...

Hegel, Africans were incapable of abstract thought, their ideas and actions were governed by impulse, and therefore a fetish object could be anything that...

Witchcraft, Oracle, and Magic among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Fontenrose, J. (1981). The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations, with a...

of Nature, Art, and Science. Harper Paperbacks, 1995. ISBN 0-06-092671-6. Pennick, Nigel: Beginnings: Geomancy, Builders' Rites and Electional Astrology...

: 117  Mauss and his collaborator, Henri Hubert, were criticised for this position when their 1904 Outline of a General Theory of Magic was published...

rites, and the ceremonies of incorporation into the new world postliminal rites." In the first phase, people withdraw from their current status and prepare...

Occult Philosophy). Chapter 23 "Of the tongue of Angels, and of their speaking amongst themselves, and with us" – he states: We may doubt whether Angels, or...

of sought-after specialists, who were, as far as their art was concerned, nevertheless bound to their father-teachers. We cannot expect to find many archaeologically...

Frazer famously argues that man progresses from belief in magic (and rituals based on magic), through belief in religion, to science. His argument is...

The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929) Coral Gardens and their Magic (1935) The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea (1988) by Annette...

Magic and Religion of the Western Islanders. Cambridge University Press. pp. 155–156. ISBN 9780521179898. Frazer, James George (2011). Totemism and Exogamy...

up runways and lighthouses.[better source needed] In a form of sympathetic magic, many built life-size replicas of airplanes out of straw and cut new military-style...

ritual magic and esotericism, an initiation is considered to cause a fundamental process of change to begin within the person being initiated and its "evolution...

North-Western Melanesia (1929), and Coral Gardens and Their Magic (1935).: 334  The works tackled issues such as reciprocity and quasi-legal sanctions (in Crime...

Frum rid themselves of their money in a frenzy of spending, left the missionary churches, schools, villages and plantations, and moved inland to participate...

psychotherapy has been noted by many and Carl Jung's objective was to provide a space he called "a temenos, a magic circle, a vessel, in which the transformation...

there is complete continuity between magic and religion. [note 35: See, for instance, RR Marett, Faith, Hope, and Charity in Primitive Religion, the Gifford...

specialists compete to help their clients control these outcomes, they drive the evolution of psychologically compelling magic, producing traditions adapted...

to experience the convulsions and inspirational trances, though some were said to disappear into the cleft due to their frenzied state. A shrine was erected...

Ferguson. "Magic Bowls". African American Heritage and Ethnography. National Park Service. Retrieved 2 December 2021. Nissinen, Martti. "'Prophecy and Ecstasy'...

Necromancy (/ˈnɛkrəmænsi/) is the practice of magic involving communication with the dead by summoning their spirits as apparitions or visions for the purpose...

can have a variety of functions and traditions depending upon the culture, but they are often related. Lunar deities and Moon worship can be found throughout...

methods vary by culture and religion. In its functional relation to magic in general, divination can have a preliminary and investigative role: [...]...

Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Malinowski, Bronisław. (1948) Magic, Science and Religion. Boston: Beacon...