Just magic: a study of the magical life of the Australian Aborigines

Farreras Morlanes, Teresa

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Just magic: a study of the magical life of the Australian Aborigines

Authors

Farreras Morlanes, Teresa

Publisher

James Cook University of North Queensland

Abstract

This thesis is concerned in presenting a generalised account of the magic system of belief and action of the Australian Aborigines which will allow to observe the thesis put forward in the literature that magic is a rational mechanism which orders the life of people: and