Magic and social tension

This chapter looks at magic as a discourse of suspicion, accusation, imagination, as well as deployments of ritual materials that arise in situations of social tension. The chapter first looks at individual cases of binding and curse rites – e.g., as efforts to gain supremacy in competitive circumst...

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Subtitles:Dimensions of a category magic
Main Author: Eidinow, Esther 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2019
In: Guide to the study of ancient magic
Year: 2019, Pages: 746-774
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic

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