>>I couldn't find any mention of this book in the archives. Has anyone seen
>>it yet? Thoughts?
Dan Harms<<
Yes, I own a copy. Seems like a perfectly fine book to me. I bought it (as
well as her other book "Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld") because I'm
interested in looking at magical groups from an ethnographic perspective -
although I am not an anthropologist, but a Classics and Archaeology student
and popular writer. I find it useful to learn another way to look at the
groups that I am inside of, it gives me perspective - and it seems to be a
bit of a trend these days, I mean here in Australia I run into anthropology
students researching magickal or Pagan groups occasionally, and I like
reading those sort of books, like Sabina Magliocco's recent book etc. To
tell the truth I haven't read that much of it. I bought it because of a
chapter I read in "Researching Paganisms" by Jenny Blain, Doug Ezzy and
Graham Harvey (AltaMira 2004), where Ezzy talks about Greenwood's research
methods in comparison with Tanya Luhrman's. I think Doug is on this list.
~Caroline.
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