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Cursed Britain A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times
ISBN: PB: 9780300254778, Yale University Press, August 2020
360 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 20 colour illus., 3 maps
<p>"Cursed Britain" unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes...
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£10,99
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Credulity A Cultural History of US Mesmerism
ISBN: PB: 9780226532332, ISBN: HB: 9780226532165, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the...
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£20,50
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£62,00
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Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image
ISBN: HB: 9780226373690, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
192 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 10 colour plates, 75 halftones
On September 25, 1890, the Mormon prophet Wilford Woodruff publicly instructed his followers to abandon polygamy. In doing so, he initiated a process that would fundamentally alter the Latter-day Saints and their faith. Trading the most integral elem...
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£36,00
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Cooking of History How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780226019567, ISBN: HB: 9780226019420, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
368 pp., 23x15 cm
Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santeria and other religions related to Orisha worship – a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa – Stephan Palmie has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban...
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£22,50
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£73,00
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