Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality /
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- xi, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
- The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1984 .
Originally published in 1990
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index.
1. Magic, science and religion in Western thought: anthropology's intellectual legacy 2. Anthropology's intellectual legacy (continued) 3. Sir Edward Tylor versus Bronislaw Malinowski: is magic false science or meaningful performance? 4. Malinowski's demarcations and his exposition of the magical art 5. Multiple orderings of reality: the debate initiated by Lévy-Bruhl 6. Rationality, relativism, the translation and commensurability of cultures 7. Modern science and its extensions