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Routledge Classics eBook Series

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  • A General Theory of Magic

    by Marcel Mauss ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Lévi-Strauss called, in an introduction to that edition, the astonishing modernity of the mind of one of the century's ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Gift

    The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

    by Marcel Mauss ...
    Translated by W.D. Halls ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    In this, his most famous work, Marcel Mauss presented to the world a book which revolutionized our understanding of some of the basic structures of society. By identifying the complex web of exchange and obligation involved in the act of giving, Mauss called into question many of our social conventions and economic systems. In a world rife with runaway consumption, The Gift continues to excite and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Ritual Process

    Structure and Anti-Structure

    by Victor Turner, Alfred Harris, Roger Abrahams ...
    In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Defining Magic

    A Reader

    by Bernd-Christian Otto, Michael Stausberg ...
    Series series Critical Categories in the Study of Religion
    Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • The World's Religions: The Study of Religion, Traditional and New Religion

    Edited by Peter Clarke, Stewart Sutherland ...
    Examines the `primitive' (traditional) non -mainstream religion and also 20th century sects such as the Moonies and Scientology. Looks at the `nature' of religion - the general philosophical issues. Written by international specialists. ... Read more

    $170.99 CAD

  • The Undiscovered Self

    With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams (New in Paper)

    by C. G. Jung ...
    Translated by R. F.C. Hull ...
    Series series Jung Extracts
    These two essays, written late in Jung's life, reflect his responses to the shattering experience of World War II and the dawn of mass society. Among his most influential works, "The Undiscovered Self" is a plea for his generation--and those to come--to continue the individual work of self-discovery and not abandon needed psychological reflection for the easy ephemera of mass culture. Only ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Rites of Passage

    by Arnold van Gennep ...
    This classic work of anthropology explores the transitional stages of an individual's life and the societal rituals involved.Arnold van Gennep's masterwork, The Rites of Passage, has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this landmark book explores how the life ... Read more

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  • The Way of Tarot

    The Spiritual Teacher in the Cards

    by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Marianne Costa ...
    Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s insights into the Tarot as a spiritual path• Works with the original Marseille Tarot to reveal the roots of Western wisdom• Provides the key to the symbolic language of the Tarot’s “nomadic cathedral”• Transforms a simple divination tool into a vehicle for self-realization and healingAlejandro Jodorowsky’s profound study of the Tarot, which began in the early 1950s ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Beyond Nature and Culture

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    "Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come." —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French editionBeyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alone With Others

    An Existential Approach to Buddhism

    by Stephen Batchelor ...
    The author of Buddhism Without Beliefs bridges the gap between Western and Eastern philosophy with this humanist approach to Buddhism.This uniquely contemporary guide to understanding the timeless message of Buddhism, and in particular its relevance in actual human relations, was inspired by Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life, which the author translated into English, the oral ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Is Critique?

    & The Culture of the Self

    by Michel Foucault ...
    These two newly translated lectures showcase Foucault's late reflections on Kant and the Enlightenment.On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefined his entire philosophical project in light of Immanuel Kant's 1784 text "What Is Enlightenment?" Foucault strikingly characterizes critique as the political and moral attitude consisting in the ... Read more

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  • Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom (Hardcover Gift Edition)

    A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness

    by Rachel Pollack ...
    A deluxe hardcover 40th Anniversary edition of the best-selling Tarot classic.This edition features:Printing on acid-free, archival-quality paperSmythe-sewn hardcover bindingBound in quarter-cloth with paper over boardsCloth spine is stamped in gold foilFront board features a blind stamp of Sun motifRachel Pollack’s Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom inspired a whole generation of tarot stud... ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD