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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: materiality of magic
    sub title: an artefactual investigation into ritual practices and popular beliefs
  name:
    name part: Houlbrook, Ceri
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Armitage, Natalie
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The subject of has long been considered peripheral and sensationalist, the word itself having become something of an academic taboo. However, beliefs in magic and the rituals that surround them are extensive as are their material manifestations and to avoid them is to ignore a prevalent aspect of cultures worldwide, from prehistory to the present day. 'The materiality of magic' addresses the value of the material record as a resource in investigations into magic, ritual practices and popular beliefs. The chronological and geographic focuses of the papers presented here vary from prehistory to the present-day, including numinous interpretations of fossils and ritual deposits in Bronze Age Europe, apotropaic devices in Roman and medieval Britain, the evolution of superstitions and ritual customs from the voodoo doll of Europe and Africa to a Scottish wishing-tree and an exploration of spatiality in West African healing practices. The objectives of this collection of nine papers are two-fold. First, to provide a platform from which to showcase innovative research and theoretical approaches in a subject which has largely been neglected within archaeology and related disciplines, and, secondly, to redress this neglect. The papers were presented at the 2012 Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference in Liverpool.
  note: edited by Ceri Houlbrook & Natalie Armitage.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Magic
  subject:
    topic: Material culture
  subject:
    topic: Ritual
  classification: BF1621 .M38 2015
  classification: 133.4/309009
  identifier: 9781785700101
  identifier: 1785700103
  identifier: 9781785700118
  identifier: 2015030029
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151019
    record change date: 20170119125408.0
    record identifier: in00003733018