/lit/ - Literature

>>11096905
>taking Frazer metaphorically
>not metaphysically
An anthropological look at magic as basic metaphor? You've got to be shitposting.

>>10902896
>We all have an FBI agent who watches us
Ehh, there's like a team of 4-5 most of the time, though they're more of an internet-wide blacklist team.

They don't have anywhere near the manpower to actually set a single agent to an individual on sites like these, let alone the expanse of the whole internet.

>If the FBI or NSA or whatever other gaggle of gays wants to watch me read and study ancient mythology and archaic magic tomes, a'ight, niggas, you go ahead and get paid to watch me hack/steal/read shit.
>I sincerely hope they pay 100k/yr or some retarded shit if there's anyone watching an autist like me syncretize and bastardize old scanned texts into my own shart-quality fanfic.
>Hell, I hope I get that job. Gib plz. Me love you long time.

>>10872713
>>Magic: History, Theory, Practice - Dr. Ernst Schertel, annotated by Adolf Hitler
Edgy, sure, but interesting to see how Hitler thought and what he thought about something like magic.

>>History of Santhaaria
It's a large .png of a collective-creation, standard-fare fantasy world. A couple people working on it claimed up to 10-12, 000 people worked on it over the years. Whole website serves as a favourite example of how fantasy & worldbuilding can go wrong.

>>Maps of Meaning
The original, 10 years out prior to Bordan P Jeterson's reductivism of Campbell, Jung, et al's works. This one is Peter Jackson's intro to Cultural Geography, and how those two are intertwined.

Will also shill for two others, first up:
>>Archaeology & Folklore
This is Amy Gazin's edit, and part of the TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) series. If you're curious about humanity and how aspects of humanity have changed, or how we discern meanings and messages from the past -- much of the time with concrete examples -- most of the series is worthwhile. I'd suggest leaving out the Managing of & Theory of books because they're drier, less-applicable-knowledge kind of read.

Last shill, even if it is a rather imprecise blob of a meme:
>>Fief, A Look at Medieval Society from Its Lower Rungs
Can't say I care to know how many grains of rice are shat by peasants and dumped on the streets every hour, but this is the next best resource for estimation. If you learn by concept, the revised edition is an immaculate tool; if you're hard for exact quoted figures, precision, and rock-solid accuracy, maybe not the best resource.

>For actual SFF, and not just books that help me write, Ian McDonald's Dervish House is my nightly read.

>>10872842
Seconding Howl's Moving Castle.

>>10873314
I did for a while, but got a promotion at work and traded time spent trying to sieve that shit for a 30% raise.