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@article{mosko_malinowski_2014,

title = {Malinowski magical puzzles: Towards a new theory of magic and procreation in Trobriand society},

author = {Mark S Mosko},

doi = {10.14318/hau4.1.001},

issn = {2049-1115},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

urldate = {2017-08-13},

journal = {HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory},

volume = {4},

number = {1},

pages = {1--47},

abstract = {Malinowski’s classic accounts of Trobriand sociality have left anthropology with many lasting conundrums. This two-part article examines two such puzzles revolving around contradictory reports over the agencies involved in magical chants (megwa). On the one hand, consistent with his pragmatic and functionalist theories of language and culture, Malinowski claimed that, although ancestral baloma and other spirits are typically invoked in most spells, those incantations’ efficaciousness derived instead from the power of the enunciated words. On the other, as part of his evidence in support of Islanders’ “ignorance of physiological paternity,” he conceded that spells intended to produce pregnancy in village women were instead expressly aimed at eliciting appropriate ritual actions from baloma spirits as agents of conception and birth. On the basis of ethnographic data recently gathered at Omarakana village interpreted through specific adaptations of the “New Melanesian Ethnography” and Tambiah’s earlier “participation” theory of ritual practice, I argue that for Trobrianders the magical power of words is the power of spirits, and vice versa. This insight has important implications for classic and contemporary debates over the nature of “magic,” controversies over paternity and so-called “virgin birth,” theories of personhood and agency, and the character of dala “matrilineage” relations.},

keywords = {kinship, magic and religion, Trobriands, work about Malinowski},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{keck_les_2002,

title = {Les théories de la magie dans les traditions anthropologiques anglaise et française},

author = {Frédéric Keck},

doi = {10.4000/methodos.90},

issn = {1769-7379},

year  = {2002},

date = {2002-01-01},

urldate = {2017-08-14},

journal = {Methodos. Savoirs et textes},

number = {2},

abstract = {Cet article oppose les traditions anthropologiques française et anglaise sur leur traitement du problème de la magie, en particulier sur les deux questions que pose le phénomène de la magie : quel type de rationalité donne à la magie son efficacité alors qu’elle ne fournit aucune prévision ? Comment passe-t-on de la rationalité magique à une rationalité critique et scientifique ? Après un rappel des rapports entre magie, religion et science tels qu’il sont conçus par Tylor et Frazer, on oppose l’idée d’une plasticité des énoncés magiques en fonction des contextes pragmatiques où ils s’inscrivent, chez Malinowski et Evans-Pritchard, et l’idée d’une structure de la pensée magique qui viendrait prendre corps dans les actes de l’individu magicien, chez Mauss et Lévi-Strauss. On conclut alors sur la façon dont ces deux traditions abordent le problème d’une logique de la pratique, et sur les conséquences qu’une telle différence dans la position des problèmes peut avoir aujourd’hui.},

keywords = {history of anthropology, magic and religion, work about Malinowski},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{abrahamian_malinowskis_1977,

title = {On Malinowski's Magic},

author = {L H Abrahamian},

doi = {10.2307/2741236},

issn = {0011-3204},

year  = {1977},

date = {1977-01-01},

journal = {Current Anthropology},

volume = {18},

number = {1},

pages = {112--113},

keywords = {magic and religion, work about Malinowski},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{wax_more_1977,

title = {More on Malinowski's Magic},

author = {Murray L Wax},

doi = {10.2307/2741329},

issn = {0011-3204},

year  = {1977},

date = {1977-01-01},

journal = {Current Anthropology},

volume = {18},

number = {2},

pages = {343--344},

keywords = {magic and religion, work about Malinowski},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{rosengren_malinowskis_1976,

title = {Malinowski's Magic: The Riddle of the Empty Cell [and Comments and Reply]},

author = {Karl Erik Rosengren and Joel S Canby and Alexander Gallus and William J Goode and Frank Harary and I C Jarvie and Thomas Luckmann and Niklas Luhmann and Philip A Noss and William C Shepherd and Richard A Shweder and Zwi R J Werblowsky and Robert L Winzeler},

doi = {10.2307/2741265},

issn = {0011-3204},

year  = {1976},

date = {1976-01-01},

journal = {Current Anthropology},

volume = {17},

number = {4},

pages = {667--685},

abstract = {The author uses the technique of substruction in order to explicate the conceptualizations about magic, science, and religion which, over more than 50 years, have been brought forward by anthropologists like Malinowski, Nadel, and Goody. The outcome is several typologies which encompass also the important linguistic notion of performative acts originated by J. L. Austin. By means of these typologies it is possible to relate to each other in a logically coherent manner four types of symbol systems (science, ideology, religion, and mythology), four corresponding types of standardized activities (work, ceremonies, rites, and magical acts), and the systems of rules governing these standardized activities (techniques, ceremonial, ritual, and magic). It is suggested that, when distinguishing between the various types, substantive distinctions may be appropriate at the level of symbol systems, functional ones at the level of activities. By confronting various typologies with each other, three different perspectives on the phenomenon of magic are recognized: that of the understanding social actor, that of the outside observer, and that of the understanding observer. Finally, some modern functional alternatives to magic are identified and discussed.},

keywords = {magic and religion, work about Malinowski},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{tambiah_magical_1968,

title = {The Magical Power of Words},

author = {Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah},

doi = {10.2307/2798500},

issn = {0025-1496},

year  = {1968},

date = {1968-01-01},

journal = {Man},

volume = {3},

number = {2},

pages = {175--208},

keywords = {magic and religion, work about Malinowski},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}