Making Magic
Author | : Randall Styers |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780195169416 |
ISBN-13 | : 0195169417 |
Rating | : 4/5 (417 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Making Magic by : Randall Styers
Download or read book Making Magic written by Randall Styers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randall Styers seeks to account for the vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that it can best be explained in light of the European and Euro-American drive to establish and secure their own identity as normative.