Magic's Translations Medhanie Gaim Lewis shows how our mistaken

Lewis shows how our mistaken intuitions about purpose are entangled with assumptions that life events happen for an intended reason and that the universe has inherent purpose

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Magic's Translations Medhanie Gaim Lewis shows how our mistaken"Do you believe in magic?" This familiar question suggests magic is easily recognized but unreal. In Magic's Translations, Margaret J. Wiener argues that such views are shaped by historical power struggles, especially in Europe's relations with the wider world. Focusing on nineteenth and twentieth century Dutch interactions with Indonesians, Wiener reveals how colonial agents framed unfamiliar practices, practitioners, and objects as "magic,"