Magic, Science and Religion

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Magic, Science and Religion AND OTHER ESSAYS by BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI with an introduction by Róbert Redfíeld No writer of our times has done more than Bronislaw Malinowski to bring together in a single comprehension the warm reality of humán living and the coöl abstractions of science. Malinowski's gift was double: it consisted both in the genius given usually to artists and in the scientist's power to see and to declare the üniversal in the particular. This volume includes three of the great anthropologist's most famous essays. In "Magic, Science and Religion" he takes account of the various views of religion which Tylor, Frazer, Marett, and Durkheim have given and goes on from there to provide his own conception in which religion is not only a matter of explaining and projecting one's dreams, nor simply of social communion, but religion and magic are ways men have-men being men-to make the world acceptable, manageable, and iight. The essay "Myth in Primitive Psychology" makes... Tovább

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Magic, Science and Religion AND OTHER ESSAYS by BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI with an introduction by Róbert Redfíeld No writer of our times has done more than Bronislaw Malinowski to bring together in a single comprehension the warm reality of humán living and the coöl abstractions of science. Malinowski's gift was double: it consisted both in the genius given usually to artists and in the scientist's power to see and to declare the üniversal in the particular. This volume includes three of the great anthropologist's most famous essays. In "Magic, Science and Religion" he takes account of the various views of religion which Tylor, Frazer, Marett, and Durkheim have given and goes on from there to provide his own conception in which religion is not only a matter of explaining and projecting one's dreams, nor simply of social communion, but religion and magic are ways men have-men being men-to make the world acceptable, manageable, and iight. The essay "Myth in Primitive Psychology" makes myths part of the meaning and function of the life of the people who teli them. The final essay, "Baloma; the Spirits of the Dead in the Tiobriand Islands," reveals the basis of Malinowski's functional point of view-the theory that types of social behavior must be analyzed for the need each of them fills in maintaining man and his society. A DOUBLEDAY ANCHOR BOOK Vissza