Defining Magic: A Reader (Critical Categories in the Study of Religion)

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inventory_hostname is the name of the hostname as configured in Ansible’s inventory host file. This can Making ‘science’ from ‘superstition’: attitudes to knowledge legitimacy among contemporary Yijing diviners. Journal of Chinese Religions 45(2), 1-24. The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology is an open access resource. Please help us keep it that way by making a one-time or a regular donation. There are other places where variables can come from, but these are a type of variable that are discovered, not set by the user.

defaults ] gathering = smart fact_caching = jsonfile fact_caching_connection = /path/to/cachedir fact_caching_timeout = 86400 # seconds Toward an epistemology of imaginal alterity: fieldwork with the dragon. In The social life of spirits (eds) R. Blanes & D. Espírito Santo, 198-217. Chicago: University Press. If your database server wants to use the value of a ‘fact’ from another node, or an inventory variable We’ll pretty much assume you are using roles at this point. You should be using roles for sure. Roles are great. You are using To avoid this, Ansible 1.8 allows the ability to save facts between playbook runs, but this feature must be manually

Whether or not you define any variables, you can access information about your hosts with the Special Variables Ansible provides, including “magic” variables, facts, and connection variables. Magic variable names are reserved - do not set variables with these names. The variable environment is also reserved. The University of East London's architecture school has garnered praise for its unwavering dedication to social justice, sustainability, and the ability to create "genre-defining magic" within the industry. Magliocco, S. 1996. Ritual is my chosen art form: the creation of ritual as folk art among contemporary pagans. In Magical religion and modern witchcraft (ed.) J.R. Lewis, 93-120. Albany: State University of New York Press. Later scholarship, based on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive time spent in the company of magic practitioners observing how magic is carried out in practice, became more interested in understanding magic rather than debunking it. Resulting approaches tended to call into question the notion that clear-cut divisions, let alone hierarchies, between magical, religious, and scientific worldviews can be objectively established. Furthermore, a consensus has emerged amongst anthropologists and religious studies specialists that deciding where religion (e.g. belief in spiritual beings), folk knowledge (e.g. non-biomedical healing systems), or ‘natural philosophy’ (e.g. astronomy) end and magic begins, has more to do with cultural boundary-making and social normativities than with any ‘objective’ reality. In innumerable historical and socio-cultural settings, drawing clear lines would be impossible. In Renaissance Europe, magic was performed by clergymen, scientists, and philosophers, while twentieth-century occultists, guided by a keen interest in scientific discoveries, moved in a grey area between science and magic producing ambiguous yet highly successful concepts such as ‘animal magnetism’, ‘mesmerism’, or ‘psychic energy’. In colonial Africa, sorcery was part and parcel of communities’ everyday religious and ritual life (Evans-Pritchard 1937). In 1980s Euro-America, witchcraft was rediscovered by tight communities of college-educated urbanites. These cases invite us to abandon the deeply ingrained stereotypes about magic as spiritually aberrant, irrational, and irredeemably ‘other’ that influenced early anthropology.

the lola value is still ignored, but ansible_user=maria takes precedence over all other places where ansible_user (or remote_user) might be set.Dr Matteo Benussi, Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Dorsoduro 3484/D, Venice, Italy. [email protected] If you liked what you just read Basically, anything that goes into “role defaults” (the defaults folder inside the role) is the most malleable and easily overridden. Anything in the vars directory of the role overrides previous versions of that variable in namespace. The idea here to follow is that the more explicit you get in scope, the more precedence it takes with command line -e extra vars always winning. Host and/or inventory variables can win over role defaults, but not explicit includes like the vars directory or an include_vars task. Today, the dividing line is often between magic that is intended to harm and magic that is not. There are, however, a lot of practices that different people disagree with, such as divination, justified harm, love magic and so forth. Many magical workers avoid the terms entirely. no default for name supplied at all. Ansible can warn you when variables aren’t defined – it’s the default behavior in fact.

At its most serious, under the bonnet of cultural appropriation lies a struggle with five important socioeconomic themes: power, privilege, portrayal, perception and pound sterling (money). It is a situation in which the dominant sector of society leverages its position to loot a disadvantaged sector of society for those five Ps, helping the dominant further strengthen its already privileged position. Partridge, C. 2005. The re-enchantment of the west, volume one: alternative spiritualities, sacralization, popular culture, and occulture. London: Bloomsbury.ansible_playbook_python is the path to the python executable used to invoke the Ansible command line tool. Stratton, K.B. 2013. Magic discourse in the ancient world. In Defining magic: a reader (eds) O. Bernd-Christian & M. Strausberg, 243-54. London: Routledge. Geschiere, P. 1997. The modernity of witchcraft: politics and the occult in postcolonial Africa. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.