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The materiality of magic : an artefactual investigation into ritual practices and popular beliefs /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Houlbrook, Ceri (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015.
Edition:Digital edition.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The curious case of the missing magical fossils / Peter Leeming
  • 2.Arranged artefacts and materials in Irish Bronze Age ritual deposits: A consideration of prehistoric practice and intention / Katherine Leonard
  • 3.Doorways, ditches and dead dogs
  • excavating and recording material manifestations of practical magic amongst later prehistoric and Romano-British communities / Adrian M. Chadwick
  • 4.Domestic magic and the walking dead in medieval England: A diachronic approach / Stephen Gordon
  • 5.European and African figural ritual magic: The beginnings of the voodoo doll myth / Natalie Armitage
  • 6.Binding spells and curse tablets through time / Debora Moretti
  • 7.The wishing-tree of Isle Maree: The evolution of a Scottish folkloric practice / Ceri Houlbrook
  • 8.Ciki and jiki: The inner and outer layers of healers' workspaces in Madina, Accra / Bryn Trevelyan James
  • 9.̀The Little Mannie with his daddy's horns' / A. J. N. W. Prag.