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Magic : a history: from alchemy to witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the present / Chris Gosden.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First American editionDescription: xix, 482 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0374200122
  • 9780374200121
Uniform titles:
  • History of magic.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 133.4/309 23
LOC classification:
  • BF1589 .G67 2020
Contents:
1. What is magic and why is it important? -- 2. The deep history of magic (c. 40,000-6000 BCE) -- 3. The magic of cities: Mesopotamia and Egypt (4000 -1000 BCE) -- 4. Chinese magic: deep participation (c. 20,000 BCE-present) -- 5. Shamanism and magic on the Eurasian Steppe (c. 4000 BCE-present) -- 6. Magical traditions in prehistoric Europe (10,000-0 BCE) -- 7. Jewish, Greek and Roman magic (c. 1000 BCE-1000 CE) -- 8. The magics of Africa, Australia and the Americas -- 9. Medieval and modern magic in Europe (500 CE-present) -- 10. Modern and future magic -- Timeline: Global history of magic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
Summary: An Oxford professor of archaeology explores the unique history of magic, the oldest and most neglected strand of human behavior, and its resurgence today -- publisher.

Originally published in Great Britain as "The history of magic: from Alchemy to witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the present by Viking, 2020.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-449) and index.

1. What is magic and why is it important? -- 2. The deep history of magic (c. 40,000-6000 BCE) -- 3. The magic of cities: Mesopotamia and Egypt (4000 -1000 BCE) -- 4. Chinese magic: deep participation (c. 20,000 BCE-present) -- 5. Shamanism and magic on the Eurasian Steppe (c. 4000 BCE-present) -- 6. Magical traditions in prehistoric Europe (10,000-0 BCE) -- 7. Jewish, Greek and Roman magic (c. 1000 BCE-1000 CE) -- 8. The magics of Africa, Australia and the Americas -- 9. Medieval and modern magic in Europe (500 CE-present) -- 10. Modern and future magic -- Timeline: Global history of magic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

An Oxford professor of archaeology explores the unique history of magic, the oldest and most neglected strand of human behavior, and its resurgence today -- publisher.

British English.

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