Form and meaning of magical acts: A point of view

Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

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This article is a reprint of an essay originally published as “Form and meaning of magical acts: A point of view,” in Horton, Robin and Ruth Finnegan, eds. (1973) Modes of thought: Essays on thinking in Western and non-Western societies. London: Faber & Faber.

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1970Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language.1967African Traditional Thought and Western Science 1967Polarity and Analogy: Two Types of Argumentation in Early Greek Thought

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