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2340/UGC 296U Magic, Myth and Supernatural 魔法、神話與超自然
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Anagnost, Ann S. 1987 Politics and Magic in Contemporary
China. Modern China 13(1):40-61.
Anderson,
Robert Thomas 1996 Magic, science,
and health: the aims and achievements of medical anthropology. Fort
Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
Bruun, O. 1996 "The
Fengshui resurgence in China: Conflicting cosmologies between state
and peasantry." The China Journal 36:47-65.
Bullard, T.E. 1989 "UFO abduction reports: the supernatural kidnap narrative
returns in technological guise." Journal
of American Folklore 102(404):147-70.
Campbell,
Joseph 1991 The power of myth. With Bill Moyers; Betty Sue Flowers, editor.
New York: Anchor Books.
Davis, Winston 1980 Dojo: Magic and Exorcism
in Modern Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
de Sardan, J P Olivier 1992 "Occultism and the ethnographic 'I': the exoticizing of
magic from Durkheim to 'postmodern' anthropology." Critique
of Anthropology 12(1):5-25.
Feder, Kenneth L. 1996 Frauds, myths, and mysteries:
science and pseudoscience in archaeology. London: Mayfield Publishing
Company.
Gardner,
Martin 1957 Fads and fallacies in the name of science. New York: Dover Publications.
Gellner,
Ernest 1992 Postmodernism, reason
and religion. London:
Routledge.
Harrold,
Francis B. and Raymond A. Eve, eds. 1995 Cult archaeology & creationism:
understanding pseudoscientific beliefs about the past. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press.
Harrell, Stevan 1986
"Men, women, and ghosts in Tawianese folk religion." In Gender and Religion:
On the Complexity of Symbols. Bynum, Carolyn Walker, Stevan Harrell, and Paula Richman, eds.
Boston: Beacon Press. Pp.
97-116.
Hess,
D. J. 1993. Science in the new
age: The paranormal, its defenders and debunkers, and American culture.
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
Hsu, Francis L.K. 1983 Exorcising the Trouble
Makers: Magic, Science, and Culture. Contributions to the Study
of Religion, No. 11. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Lett, J. 1991 "Interpretive
anthropology, metaphysics, and the paranormal." Journal of Anthropological Research 47(3):305-329.
Luhrmann,
T. M. (Tanya M.) 1989 Persuasions
of the witch's craft: ritual magic and witchcraft in present-day England. Oxford: B. Blackwell.
Middleton,
J., ed. 1967. Magic, witchcraft,
and curing. American Museum sourcebooks in anthropology. Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press.
Potter, Jack M. 1974 Cantonese Shamanism. In Religion
and Ritual in Chinese Society. Arthur P. Wolf, ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Pp.
207-231.
Segal,
Robert A., ed. 1996 Anthropology,
folklore, and myth. New
York: Garland Pub.
Tambiah,
Stanley Jeyaraja 1990 Magic, science, religion, and the scope of
rationality. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
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