Bronislaw Malinowski THE ROLE OF MAGIC AND RELIGION
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Few writers in modern times have written as lucidly and with as much firsthand field experience on the subject of magic and religion as has Bmnislaw Malinowski. His classic paper on the subject is "Magic, Science. and Religion," which was first published in James Needham (ed.), Science. Rel~gion and Reality. in 1925. But since this famous paper was reprinted by the Free Press in a h o k by the same name in 1948. and then in 1954 became available in a Doubleday Anchot. Book edition. we are presenting 8 briefer statement of most af the same theoretical ground drawn from his article, "Culture." which appeared in the Flncyclopedio of the Social Sciences. For a more detailed version
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