About this title: The author takes into account the various views of religion which Tylor, Frazer, Marett, and Durkheim have given and goes on from there to provide his own conception that religion and magic are ways men have to make the world acceptable.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Doubleday, N. Y.
Date Published: 1954
Description: Cover Art. Reading Copy. No Jacket. Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Reading copy is rated from good to very fine.........The book may have minor flaws that may have gone unnoticed... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1954
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The book is very solid with bright pages with underlining and margin notes on the first 101 pages. The cover has moderate shelf wear & minor edge wear. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Doubleday Anchor Books, Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1954
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight/ covers creased; moderate edge wear/ Friends of the Library stamp on title and or front page/ corners, spine hinge and spine creased/ previous owners name stamped on front page and inside front cover/ several pages have underlining. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston
Date Published: 1948
Description: Good. No dust jacket. clea/tight/age-toned PB. unmarked text. Edge-worn/age-toned cover. [bx1] xii, 327 p. front. 22 cm. Bibliographical footnotes. Magic, science and religion. --Myth in primitive psychology. --Baloma: the spirits of the dead in the Trobriand Islands. --The problem of meaning in primitive language. --An anthropological analysis of war. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Doubleday/Anchor
Date Published: 1954
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. An average used paperback with wear, corner bumps, small creases, light tear on upper spine, etc. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Doubleday Anchor
Date Published: 1954
Description: Good. Red spine, black and white lettering. Scuffing, rubbed edges. Contains marks and signature of previous owner on first blank page. May have some shelf wear. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Waveland Press
Date Published: 1992-03
ISBN-13:9780385092463ISBN:0385092466
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books, New York
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Rubbing, tanning/staining and slight fraying on edges of cover, store stamp on inside front, soil/tanning on edge, stains on a few pages, else text clean, binding tight. read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: Doubleday Anchor Books
Date Published: 1955
Description: Acceptable. Writing in Margins. Worn Cover. Bit beat-up around the edges. Some staining. Sturdy reading copy. Some underlining. Paperback edition. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 1948
Description: Good. Single spine crease, spine faded, pages slightly toned, cover edge wear. "No writer of our time has done more than Bronislaw Malinowski to bring together in a single comprehension the warm reality of human living and the cool abstractions of science. Malinowski's gift was double: it consisted of both in the genius given usually to artists and in the scientist's power to see and declare the universal particular. This volume includes three of the great anthropologist's most famous essays. " read more
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