the elist is a separate entity
Dave E
original founder, JSM
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From: "nagasiva yronwode, YIPPIE Director" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:17:56 -0700
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] JASM ==> Preternature
> hi Kirsten,
>
> "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" <[log in to unmask]>:
> > Preternature
> > Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural,
> > is currently accepting manuscripts and book review requests/suggestions.
> > Preternature is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal housed at
> > The Pennsylvania State University, and published in Oxford, England.
>
> very good to see this peer reviewing and publishing continuing.
>
> > Formerly known as the Journal for the Academic Study of Magic,
>
> is there some description of why this was changed, and does
> this have some effect on this forum, or is it wholly unrelated?
>
> > Preternature publishes original scholarship and texts in
> > edition/translation on magics, the occult, spiritualism,
> > demonology, monstrophy, and the 'preternatural' in all
> > its cultural, historical, anthropological, artistic,
> > literary, and folkloric iterations. ...
>
> does this mean that the focus is being taken off of magic
> and spread out to all of these fields, in part symbolized
> by the change of the journal's name?
>
> is there a backstory re personnel, funding, or somethng else?
>
> curious, thanks.
>
> nagasiva yronwode ([log in to unmask]), Director
> YIPPIE*! -- http://www.yronwode.org/
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> *Yronwode Institution for the Preservation
> and Popularization of Indigenous Ethnomagicology
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