According to Marcel Maus’ deliberately provocative statement, “One person’s magic is another’s religion”. Magical thinking, denigrated by Western ethnocentrism and pilloried by religious and scientific institutions, arises from a manner of seeing the world, present in human societies since the beginning of time, through beliefs and practices labelled as animist. Far from the simplistic representations that it has generated, referencing images of superstition, idolatry, or naïveté which places societies that practice animism on a…
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