Marcel Mauss: The practical idea of magic in “pantheism of mana”

The article assembles theoretic models that define magic as an original social phenomenon fundamentally different from religion. Referring to the definitions of C. Lévi-Strauss, G. Gurvitch and V.I. Garadga the author focuses on the conception of magic proposed by Marcel Mauss. He defined magic as a...

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Main Author: Yu V Yatsutsenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2015-12-01
Series:RUDN journal of Sociology
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/6454