Magic in Popular Narratives

Jan Kajfosz

ISBN 10: 3631840357 / ISBN 13: 9783631840351

Published by Peter Lang Feb 2021, 2021

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Neuware -The book deals with manifestations and relics of magical thinking in the narrative folklore of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen Silesia, T¿¿ín Silesia). The point of departure is a phenomenological and social constructivist approach to human cognition. The author follows the cognitive dimensions of pre-modern folklore and popular texts in general. They are conventional in the sense that they are repeated in many variants inside one communicative group. Habituation based on more or less accurate reproduction of stereotypes (and corresponding experiences), motives, action scenarios, rationalizations, and motivations, is the source of relatively stable world image. The key concept developed in the book is redefined categorization understood as the simplification and stabilization of too complex and changing reality through shared narratives.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 218 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Magic in Popular Narratives
• Publisher: Peter Lang Feb 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631840357
• ISBN 13: 9783631840351
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 15D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 400 grams

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Synopsis

The book deals with manifestations and relics of magical thinking in the narrative folklore of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen Silesia, Těšín Silesia). The point of departure is a phenomenological and social constructivist approach to human cognition. The author follows the cognitive dimensions of pre-modern folklore and popular texts in general. They are conventional in the sense that they are repeated in many variants inside one communicative group. Habituation based on more or less accurate reproduction of stereotypes (and corresponding experiences), motives, action scenarios, rationalizations, and motivations, is the source of relatively stable world image. The key concept developed in the book is redefined categorization understood as the simplification and stabilization of too complex and changing reality through shared narratives.

About the Author

Jan Kajfosz is university professor at the Institute of Culture Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) and associate professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Ostrava (Czech Republic). His research interests concern magical thinking, cognitive anthropology, and social constructivism.