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Who are the none Europeans in the volume? Where are the Asians, Africans, South Americans, Middle Easterners? Start there, Dr. Segal -- the blatantly obvious. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Segal, Professor Robert A. < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Jan. 16 > > Dear Nick and Dave, > > When, for example, Malinowski wrote about magic, he was using native > categories. Many other academics--e.g., Tambiah--do the same. > > And the debate over magic even among Western scholars has always been > intense. There is no uniform Western position. Western scholars, who > have the advantage of professional training, are not some brainwashed group > indoctrinated with a single viewpoint. > > Why not show some gumption and ask just what is being left out? The > burden should be on critics. > > Robert Segal > ________________________________________ > From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic [ > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nicholas Campion [ > [log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 1:35 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Defining magic > > Dave, > > A good thought, and I would agree. I am always careful to include the word > western: > > Campion, Nicholas, A History of Western Astrology, Vol 1. The Ancient > World, London: Continuum, 2009, London: Continuum, 2008, Vol. 2, The > Medieval and Modern Worlds, London: Continuum, 2009. > > http://www.continuumbooks.com/authors/details.aspx?AuthorId=150670&BookId=133908 > > Campion, Nicholas, Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West: > Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement (Abingdon: Ashgate, 2012). > > http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409435143 > > In another book I was painfully constrained by the absence of available > published sources by authors outside a western context. I discuss such > source problems throughout. > > Campion, Nicholas, Astrology and Cosmology in the World’s Religions (New > York: New York University Press, 2012). > http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=4779 > > Cheers, > > Nick > > Dr Nicholas Campion > Programme Director, MA Cultural Astronomy and Astrology > Senior Lecturer, School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, > University of Wales Trinity Saint David, > Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, SA48 7ED, UK. > http://www.trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk/en/sophia/ > > > > > From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic [mailto: > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Green > Sent: 16 January 2013 12:51 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Defining magic > > I can see this N.W. and it is a problem, but it is a text about Western > magic, perhaps that should have been in the title. > > Dr Dave Green > > Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of the West of England, Bristol, > UK > > Society for the Academic Study of Magic (SASM): > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC > > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=653230719 > > ________________________________ > From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic [ > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of N.W. Azal [ > [log in to unmask]] > Sent: 16 January 2013 12:42 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Defining magic > Yet another Anglo-European academic text perpetuating an exclusively > hegemonic Eurocentric narrative about magic. The colonialist is alive and > well in the knowledge industries of the Western Ivory Tower. > > http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/2013114142638797542.html > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:58 AM, David Green <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > Bernd, > > This looks great. Thanks for posting. > > Dave > > Dr Dave Green > > Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of the West of England, Bristol, > UK > > Society for the Academic Study of Magic (SASM): > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC > > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=653230719 > ________________________________________ > From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic [ > [log in to unmask]<mailto: > [log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Bernd-Christian Otto [ > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] > Sent: 15 January 2013 12:56 > To: [log in to unmask]<mailto: > [log in to unmask]> > Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Defining magic > > Hello everyone! > > I would like to announce the publication of a volume which might be of > interest to some readers of this list, namely Michael Stausberg’s and my > Defining Magic: A Reader. It was just recently published in the series > "Critical Categories in the Study of Religion" at Equinox > Publishing/Acumen. Those of you who teach courses on magic might find the > genre of a reader particularly useful as it includes a range of important > definitions and theories all in one place. Apart from the usual suspects, > i.e. excerpts of classical authors (Tylor, Frazer, Mauss/Hubert, Durkheim, > van der Leeuw, Malinowski, Evans-Pritchard, Horton, Tambiah, Leach), we > also included a section covering pre-academic sources (from Plato to > Blavatsky) and a section with original texts by five contemporary authors > (Greenwood, Lehrich, Sørensen, Stratton, Styers). Have a look at the TOC: > http://www.acumenpublishing.co.uk/display.asp?K=e2012121911335322&sf1=subj_code&st1=RS&sort=sort_date/d&ds=Reference&m=18&dc=50 > . > > All texts are seperately introduced for student readers. There is also an > introduction devoted to sorting out the definition riddle, and sectional > introductions which aim at embedding the selected sources in the wider > discourse of the respective time. > > But now enough of advertising! Best wishes from > Bernd-Christian Otto & Michael Stausberg > > > > The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No > SC013683. >