Stolen Lightning
Daniel Lawrence O’Keefe
An interdisciplinary investigation of the role of magic in human societies, past and present, asserts that magic remains an important element in contemporary civilizations.
- Publisher
- Burns & Oates
- ISBN-13
- 9780826400598
- Genre
- Topics
- Magic and societyAnthropology of religionRitual and belief systems
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1982)
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