Journal of American Folklore, July 1st, 2002
The End of Magic. By Ariel Glucklich. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 253, preface, introduction, concluding remarks, bibliography, index.)
This book simultaneously accomplishes two things. First, it provides a description of magical practices in Banaras, India, through the presentation of 39 case studies. Second, it reviews the history of theories about magic as a background for the author's own phenomenological musings about this little-understood complex of practices. Since Hindi contains a number of words (e.g.,jadu-tona, totaka, muth, tantra-mantra) that are all subsumed un...
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