| Abstract: | Derek Freeman, When S.F. Nadel3 who was the Foundation Professor of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian ‘National University, was on study leave in England in 1955, he recorded two talks for the BBC entitled ‘Magic Thinking’. The texts of these talks were deposited in the Department of Anthropology following Professor Nadel's death in 1956. To the best of our knowledge they have never previously been published. It is considered appropriate that these talks should appear in the first issue of Canberra Anthropology, which is being edited by research students in the discipline that Professor Nadel so effectively established at the Australian National University. |
