Who really believes in magic?
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By Neil Levy, Rob Ross and Ryan McKa. Cross-posted from Human Behaviour and Society.
Anthropology must steer a narrow course between twin dangers. On the one hand, there is the perennial risk of exoticizing other peoples. On the other hand, there is a danger of a failure to recognize genuine difference, rendering somewhat alien worldviews mere variants of our own. Nowhere do these risks loom larger than when it comes to understanding the attitudes of other cultures to magic.
On the one ha
Anthropology must steer a narrow course between twin dangers. On the one hand, there is the perennial risk of exoticizing other peoples. On the other hand, there is a danger of a failure to recognize genuine difference, rendering somewhat alien worldviews mere variants of our own. Nowhere do these risks loom larger than when it comes to understanding the attitudes of other cultures to magic.
On the one ha
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