基本信息出版社：Routledge
页码：144 页
出版日期：2001年05月
ISBN：0415254035
条形码：9780415254038
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Routledge Classics
外文书名：医药、巫术与宗教

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One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Part of his appeal lay in an extraordinary intellect, mixed with a very real interest in his fellow man.Medicine, Magic and Religion is a prime example of this. In it, Rivers introduced the then revolutionary idea that indigenous practices are indeed rational, when viewed in terms of religious beliefs.
作者简介 W.H.R. Rivers (1864-1922) was a pioneer in the fields of neurology, psychology and anthropology. During the First World War he worked as a psychiatrist at Maghull and Craiglockhart military hospitals.
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"Always, as we read, we feel we are in close contact with a mind that is really thinking." -- Nation

'I should like to meet Rivers in "the next world". It is difficult to believe that such a man as he could be extinguished. - Siegfried Sassoon

Despite the distinction and variety of his scientific achievements, only those personally acquainted with him can fully appreciate the causes of that profound respect with which he was regarded. Medicine, Magic and Religion is a document of first-rate importance ... and it will thus remain as a worthy monument to its distinguished author. - Times Literary Supplement

I should like to meet Rivers in the next world. It is difficult to believe that such a man as he could be extinguished. - Siegfried Sassoon

Always, as we read, we feel we are in close contact with a mind that is really thinking.
–Nation

Despite the distinction and variety of his scientific achievements, only those personally acquainted with him can fully appreciate the causes of that profound respect with which he was regarded ...Medicine, Magic and Religion is a document of first-rate importance ... and it will thus remain as a worthy monument to its distinguished author.
–The Times Literary Supplement

I should like to meet Rivers in the next world. It is difficult to believe that such a man as he could be extinguished.
–Siegfried Sassoon

The Routledge Classics, an intellectually compelling, and sometimes daunting, selection of important nonfiction originally published by the leftish Routledge or one of its imprints.[a] superb and welcome series.
–Martin Levin, Globe & Mail

The restraint, power and fineness of Rivers' mind make it impossible to be patient with critics who feel uncomfortable in the presence of his greatness.
–Robert Graves