New book explains the subtleties of paranormal studies
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Across the globe and through time, diverse cultures have developed
elaborate systems for understanding and interacting with strange forces and
invisible beings. Since the nineteenth century anthropologists have theorised
about the nature of the extraordinary experiences and beliefs recounted to them
by their fieldwork informants, at home and abroad.
New from August Night Press, Dr. Jack Hunter's Spirits, Gods and Magic is an essential introductory guide to the anthropology of the supernatural. Concise and easy to navigate, the book features chapters on a broad range of practices and phenomena, from ghosts, spirits, gods and demons, to shamanism and spirit possession, magic and witchcraft, and psychical research and parapsychology.
New from August Night Press, Dr. Jack Hunter's Spirits, Gods and Magic is an essential introductory guide to the anthropology of the supernatural. Concise and easy to navigate, the book features chapters on a broad range of practices and phenomena, from ghosts, spirits, gods and demons, to shamanism and spirit possession, magic and witchcraft, and psychical research and parapsychology.
With a Foreword by anthropologist Dr. Fiona Bowie and an Afterword by
parapsychologist Dr. David Luke, the book makes an important contribution to
inter-disciplinary paranormal studies and is an essential addition to the
library of any serious scholar of anthropology and / or the supernatural...
'Spirits, Gods, and Magic' is available now for all good online
booksellers, including Amazon.