Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Magic and Fetishism by Alfred C. Haddon.The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment.Alfred Cort Haddon was born on May 24, 1855, near London, the oldest son of John Haddon, head of a firm of founders and printers. She attended lectures at King's College London and taught zoology and geology at a girls' school in Dover, before entering Christ's College Cambridge in 1875.At Cambridge he studied zoology and became friends with John Holland Rose (later Harmsworth Professor of Naval History), whose sister he married in 1881. Shortly after earning his master's degree in Arts, he was appointed Protester in Zoology at Cambridge in 1879. During for a time he studied marine biology in Naples.
