Magic in Popular Narratives

ISBN-13: 9783631840351 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 218 str.

Jan Pytalski; Jan Kajfosz

Opis

The book deals with manifestations and relics of magical thinking in narrative folklore of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen Silesia, Tìsínské Slezsko). The author focuses on the cognitive dimension of socially shared narratives and demonstrates how they re-produce the magical picture of the world. He redefines the cognitivist concept of categorization.

Spis treści

magical thinking - social construction of reality - pre-modernity - Cieszyn Silesia - Teschen Silesia - cognitive anthropology - historical anthropology - social memory - folklore studies - everyday knowledge - folk philosophy - sacred - phenomenology - phenomenology of religion - phenomenological sociology

O autorze

Jan Kajfosz is university professor at the Institute of Culture Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) and associate professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Ostrava (Czech Republic). His research interests concern magical thinking, cognitive anthropology, and social constructivism.