LIVING MAGIC : The Realities Underlying the Psychical Practices and Beliefs of Australian Aborigines
by Ronald Rose
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/No Jacket
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Rand McNally, 1956. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/No Jacket. Text/NEW & Bright. Vintage 1956, stated First Edition, 1st Printing. Illustrated taupe linen boards/NF w/trace rubs to corner tips. DJ/None. Bookshop label to front cover verso. A pioneer field study exploring the psi ("phychic") of Australian Aborigines. 17 chapters: 1, Living Magic; 2, Sorcery; 3, To Areyonga; 4, A Witch Doctor's Ways; 5, Leech & Corner; 6, The Magic Cord; 7, How Magicians are Made; 8, The Way Love Finds; 9, Life with the Dead; 10, Aboriginal Telepathy; 11, Sagacity & Superstition; 12, Hypnotism; 13, Women in Magic; 14, Culture Clash; 15, Savage or Sage?; 16, Experimental; and, 17, Problems Solved, followed by 2 appendices.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010027
- Title
- LIVING MAGIC : The Realities Underlying the Psychical Practices and Beliefs of Australian Aborigines
- Author
- Ronald Rose
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Rand McNally
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Anthropology, Parapsychology, Magic, ustralian Aborigines
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion; Psychiatry;
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