{"id":1229,"date":"2009-10-19T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2009-10-19T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:19:00","slug":"greenwoods-anthropological-study-of-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"Greenwood’s Anthropological Study of Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

British anthropologist Susan Greenwood is interviewed at Pagans for Archaeology<\/a> about her new book, The Anthropology of Magic<\/a>\"\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In this new book I have taken that argument further and related it to a classical anthropological debate on mystical mentality; and I have also explored the nature of reality in relation to an inspirited world, developing a new methodology of magic from my own experiences, as well as those of others.<\/span><\/p>\n

The “Luhrmann effect” mentioned by the interviewer refers to the backlash against anthropologists expressed by some British Witches and ceremonial magicians whose practices were discussed by anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann <\/a>in her 1988 book, Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft<\/a>\"\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British anthropologist Susan Greenwood is interviewed at Pagans for Archaeology about her new book, The Anthropology of Magic. In this new book I have taken that argument further and related it to a classical anthropological debate on mystical mentality; and I have also explored the nature of reality in relation to an inspirited world, developing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[30,88,72],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-anthropology","tag-britain","tag-magick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-jP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1923,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1923","url_meta":{"origin":1229,"position":0},"title":"Paranthropology newsletter","author":"Chas S. 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