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Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

by Bronislaw Malinowski · 1948

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The author takes into account the various views of religion which Tylor, Frazer, Marett, and Durkheim have given and goes on from there to provide his own conception that religion and magic are ways men have to make the world acceptable.

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anthropologyanthropologyMore like thisLess of thissocial sciencesocial scienceMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thissociologysociologyMore like thisLess of thisphilosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of this
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mythologymythologyMore like thisLess of thismyths and folkloremyths and folkloreMore like thisLess of this
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religionreligionMore like thisLess of thisspiritualityspiritualityMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 274 pages
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