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The Andaman Islanders

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In A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
His study The Andaman Islanders (1922; new ed. 1964) contained the essential formulation of his ideas and methods.
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magic

In magic: Sociological theories
Radcliffe-Brown in the The Andaman Islanders (1922) and to a lesser extent by Malinowski in Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) and Magic, Science and Religion (1925). Radcliffe-Brown posited that the function of magic was to express the social importance of the desired event, while Malinowski regarded magic…
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