The materiality of magic : an artefactual investigation into ritual practices and popular beliefs / / edited by Ceri Houlbrook & Natalie Armitage

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource ( vi, 184p.)
• Disciplina: 133.4309009
• Soggetto topico: Magic; Material culture; Ritual
• Persona (resp. second.): HoulbrookCeri; ArmitageNatalie
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. The curious case of the missing magical fossils / Peter Leeming -- 2.Arranged artefacts and materials in Irish Bronze Age ritual deposits: A consideration of prehistoric practice and intention / Katherine Leonard -- 3.Doorways, ditches and dead dogs -- excavating and recording material manifestations of practical magic amongst later prehistoric and Romano-British communities / Adrian M. Chadwick -- 4.Domestic magic and the walking dead in medieval England: A diachronic approach / Stephen Gordon -- 5.European and African figural ritual magic: The beginnings of the voodoo doll myth / Natalie Armitage ; 6.Binding spells and curse tablets through time / Debora Moretti -- 7.The wishing-tree of Isle Maree: The evolution of a Scottish folkloric practice / Ceri Houlbrook -- 8.Ciki and jiki: The inner and outer layers of healers' workspaces in Madina, Accra / Bryn Trevelyan James -- 9.̀The Little Mannie with his daddy's horns' / A. J. N. W. Prag.
• Titolo autorizzato: The materiality of magic
• ISBN: 1-78570-013-8; 1-78570-011-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816510903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II