Curry, Patrick M and Willis, Roy (2004) Astrology, Science and Culture:pulling down the Moon. Berg Books, Oxford, UK, 170 pp. ISBN 1859736874.
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Abstract
This book comprises a joint approach by Curry (writing as an historian) and Willis (writing as an anthropologist) to situating astrology in modern Western culture and society. It traces the roots and development of that placement, contextualising – broadly speaking – astrology as divination and science as Weberian rationalisation and disenchantment. It pays particular attention to the complex relations between astrology and modern science, including the ways each has defined itself either as or against the other. The result is an original contribution to the history and sociology of both subjects.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Humanities > School of European Culture and Languages |
| Depositing User: | Maureen Nunn |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2007 18:46 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2010 14:01 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/1152 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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