Talk:Magic (anthropology)

Contemporary definitions of conjuring, magic and illusion

Jeff Sheridan's contribution to conjuring epistemology are worthy of including in the main article. I will return to complete shortly. Aladin 17:43, 12 November 2007 (CST)

I have expanded the article with the inclusion of the relevant quotes from Helen Varola's 'Con Art'.

Around 2003/4 I was filming a documentary for National Geographic TV during which they followed me to my first encounter with Jeff. He and I sat and quite spontaneously and eagerly began talking critical theory as it applied to magic as a performing art. It struck us during that meeting that there was a relative lacuna in terms of ruminative, anthropologically based discourse about conjuring epistemology, methodology and critical theory. We have since talked about collaborating on some text together. Meanwhile in the finished documentary National Geographic showed me sitting down and chatting with Doris Lessing, but not with Jeff Sheridan. At least he and I acquired a friendship at the end. aladin Aladin 06:53, 14 November 2007 (CST)