mana

is s a level where the notion of 'unconscious category' and 'category of collective thinking' would be synonymous.

We must rather seek its meaning in the attempt he himself made, in connection with the notion of mana, to reach a sort of 'fourth dimension' of the mind, a level where the notion of 'unconscious category' and 'category of collective thinking' would be synonymous. (levi-strauss 'Mauss' 35)

is the archaic basis for magic and quite likely also for the notion of causality.

It was in this way that, by developing the notion of mana, Hubert and I believed we had found not only the archaic basis for magic, but also the very general, and probably very primitive, form of the notion of cause.' (mauss 'person')

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