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Critical history of the war on sympathetic magic
"Very Superstitious," Colin Dickey's essay for Lapham's Quarterly, presents a critical take on The Golden Bough, James G. Frazer's 1890 classic text on superstition. Dickey frames contempt for sympathetic magic and its practitioners in the context of the decline of the British empire, and connects it with earlier critiques stretching all the way back to [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/qQdcl2hCcKE/critical-history-of-the-war-on.html
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