The Materiality of Magic
- Book ID:
- 7599
- Title:
- The Materiality of Magic
- Subtitle:
- An artefactual investigation into ritual practices and popular beliefs
- Author:
- 'VARIOUS'
- ISBN number:
- 9781785700101
- Publisher name:
- Oxbow Books
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
- Book type:
- Paperback
- First edition date:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 181
- Dewey decimal number:
- 133.44 VAR
- Dust jacket:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Photographs:
- Yes
- Illustrations:
- No
- Bibliography:
- Yes
- Height (cm):
- 24
- Width (cm):
- 17
- Notes:
Edited by Ceri Houlbrook and Natalie Armitage (with an introduction by them).
Includes the following articles:
- Also found... (not illustrated)...': The curious case of the missing magical fossils. - Peter Leeming.
- Arranged artefacts and materials in Irish Bronze Age ritual deposits: A consideration of prehistoric practice and intention - Katherine Leonard.
- Doorways, ditches and dead dogs - excavating and recording material manifestations of practical magic amongst later prehistoric and Romano-British communities. - Adrian M. Chadwick.
- Domestic magic and the walking dead in medieval England: A diachronic approach. - Stephen Gordon.
- European and African figural ritual magic: The beginnings of the voodoo doll myth. - Natalie Armitage.
- Binding spells and curse tablets through time. - Debora Moretti.
- The wishing-tree of Isle Maree: The evolution of a Scottish folkloric practice. - Ceri Houlbrook.
- Ciki and jiki: The inner and outer layers of healers' workspaces in Madina, Accra. - Bryn Trevelyan James.
- 'The Little Mannie with his daddy's horns.' - A. J. N. W. Prag.