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Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino is now recognized as one of the most original thinkers in the field. This book is testament to de Martino s innovation and engagement with Hegelian historicism and phenomenology a work of ethnographic theory way ahead of its time.

This new translation of "Sud e Magia," his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcraft in southern Italy, shows how De Martino is not interested in the question of whether magic is rational or...