Magic and witchcraft
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https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.anthropen.099Keywords:
Topology, Efficiency, Ritualism, Taboo, (Anti)witch, Traditional beliefsAbstract
The absence of magic and witchcraft in pygmy bands or hippy communes with informal institutions and indefinable ideologies suggests that the trust placed (for better or worse) in the automatic efficiency of recourse to symbolic formulas and materials would take place mostly in complex societies with structural divisions and systematized speculations.
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