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Pękala Mateusz and Stępień Mateusz, The Relationshiop Between Law and Magic: Preliminary Remarks, in Towards An Anthropology of the Legal Field: Critiques and Case Studies (T. Ledvinka, Prague: 2012), at 24-34. Here's the text of the first paragraph (footnote omitted).
Both law and magic are very important topics of anthropological research. However, despite its dynamic development and impressive achievements during the 20th century, anthropology of law would appear to be marginalized largely due to its failure to propose a coherent, complex anthropological theory of legal phenomena. This despite the fact that the study of magic remains one of the most important and heavily discussed anthropological issues today. There is no doubt that the way in which anthropologists perceive magic has changed, but their interest in magic-related topics remains. There are two main reasons for the lack of comprehensive analyses of the relationship between magic and (modern) law: Firstly, the creeping crisis of legal anthropology; and secondly, the flourishing of new topics in the study of magic (changes in magical practices, re-enchantment processes in the West).
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