Bronislaw Malinowski: Magic, Science and Religion

Antropologian funktionalismin perustajiin kuuluvan puolalaistaustaisen brittiantropologin erittäin vaikutusvaltainen esseekokoelma englanniksi. Esseet 1920-luvulta suurimmaksi osaksi, tämä laitos 1954. Painoksesta ei tietoa. Merkintöjä on. Pehmeät kannet, 274 sivua.

No writer of our times 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 both in the genius given usually to artists and in the scientist's power to see and to declare the universal in the particular.
This volume includes three of the great anthropologist's most famous essays.
In Magic, Science and Religion he takes account of the various views of religion which Tylor, Frazer, Marett, and Durkheim have given and goes on from there to provide his own conception in which religion is not only a matter of explaining and projecting one's dreams, not simply of social communion, but religion and magic are ways men have—men being men—to make the world acceptable, manageable, and right.