In this short volume of the series Religions Ancient and Modern, the anthropologist who led the Torres Straits expedition defines magic and sorts its forms. He describes sympathetic and contagious magic, love charms, weather-making, image magic and the use of fetishes, drawing on examples from the Pacific, Africa and folk practice, with a bibliography for further reading.
A compact primer from the early years of British anthropology, with the frameworks of 1906. Download the free EPUB.