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u/TryptamineX ยท 2 pointsr/CriticalTheory

It might not be precisely what you're looking for, but if you're using academic investigations of cultures that practice magic, Randal Styers' Making Magic provides an incredibly helpful study of those academic investigations themselves. He's particularly interested in how scholarly work on magic has helped to reinforce cultural assumptions of modernity (by constituting magic as the primitive or improper foil to proper, modern understandings of reason, religion, and desire) and how discourses of magic have helped to destabilize that very project.