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Dojo: Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan

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A Stanford University Press classic.

352 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1980

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Winston Davis

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July 2, 2018
An important book on the intense pull of magical thinking and cognitive bias.
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July 27, 2023
I feel like I got a good lesson on anthropology, religion, economics, sociology, politics, and magic
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January 4, 2014
old but still insightful! check out his use of sustantial & functional rationality (proposed by Mannheim in 1940)
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