Sociological and andlropological studies similarly presellt themselves in traditional disciplinary styles. Most books advert to normative modes of evidence, analysis, and interpretation in those historical fields. Early modern magic, a preoccupation of the present work, receives treatment within the narrow limits of intellectual history and the history of science. The primary difficulty is simply explained: work on magic is tighdy constrained by the conventions of the discipLines in which it is locally formulated. Work in these areas, though on the increase, remains hampered by various methodological and political blinders.
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