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    Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous?

    Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous?

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    Why do children doubt magic, but believe in the miraculous?

    FromAnthropology

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    Length:
    50 minutes
    Released:
    Jul 26, 2017
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Prof. Paul Harris (Harvard Graduate School of Education) examines why children are skeptical about magical phenomena but are willing to believe in supposedly miraculous violations of everyday causal constraints. 12 May 2017.
    Released:
    Jul 26, 2017
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Podcasts from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. The School is renowned for its contributions to anthropological theory, its commitment to long-term ethnographic fieldwork, and its association with the Pitt Rivers Museum and the anthropology of visual and material culture. Home to over forty academic staff, over a hundred doctoral students, twelve Master’s programmes, and two undergraduate degrees (Human Sciences; Archaeology and Anthropology), Oxford anthropology is one of the world’s largest and most vibrant centres for teaching and research in the discipline. It came top of the Power (research excellence + volume) rankings for anthropology in the UK in RAE 2008.