Phil Stevens received his BA from Yale in English in 1963, then worked for three years with the Peace Corps in Nigeria. He entered the graduate anthropology program at Northwestern University, returned to Nigeria for dissertation research, and received his PhD in 1973. During 48 years with the anthropology department at SUNY, Buffalo, he conducted further research in Nigeria and the Caribbean, received two awards for teaching and an honorary Nigerian chieftaincy title, and wrote many publications in anthropology and African studies. He is the editor of Routledge’s 4-volume Anthropology of Religion: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, 2011.

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• Preface1. Introduction2. Anthropology and Cultural Reality 3. The Supernatural4. Magic, Inherently Human5. The Principles of Magic in Mystical/Ritual Contexts6. Witchcraft (and Sorcery): Inherently Human7. The Witch is a Composite of Fundamental Fears and Fantasies8. Dark Shamans and Child-Eating Satanists; Summary ConclusionsGlossaryIndex

Phil Stevens received his BA from Yale in English in 1963, then worked for three years with the Peace Corps in Nigeria. He entered the graduate anthropology program at Northwestern University, returned to Nigeria for dissertation research, and received his PhD in 1973. During 48 years with the anthropology department at SUNY, Buffalo, he conducted further research in Nigeria and the Caribbean, received two awards for teaching and an honorary Nigerian chieftaincy title, and wrote many publications in anthropology and African studies. He is the editor of Routledge’s 4-volume Anthropology of Religion: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, 2011.

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• Preface1. Introduction2. Anthropology and Cultural Reality 3. The Supernatural4. Magic, Inherently Human5. The Principles of Magic in Mystical/Ritual Contexts6. Witchcraft (and Sorcery): Inherently Human7. The Witch is a Composite of Fundamental Fears and Fantasies8. Dark Shamans and Child-Eating Satanists; Summary ConclusionsGlossaryIndex

Phil Stevens received his BA from Yale in English in 1963, then worked for three years with the Peace Corps in Nigeria. He entered the graduate anthropology program at Northwestern University, returned to Nigeria for dissertation research, and received his PhD in 1973. During 48 years with the anthropology department at SUNY, Buffalo, he conducted further research in Nigeria and the Caribbean, received two awards for teaching and an honorary Nigerian chieftaincy title, and wrote many publications in anthropology and African studies. He is the editor of Routledge’s 4-volume Anthropology of Religion: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, 2011.

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• Preface1. Introduction2. Anthropology and Cultural Reality 3. The Supernatural4. Magic, Inherently Human5. The Principles of Magic in Mystical/Ritual Contexts6. Witchcraft (and Sorcery): Inherently Human7. The Witch is a Composite of Fundamental Fears and Fantasies8. Dark Shamans and Child-Eating Satanists; Summary ConclusionsGlossaryIndex