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Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring

Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring

In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself.
 
Through this novel meditation on reasoning and skill, Rappert elevates magic from the undertaking of mere trickery to an art that offers the basis for rethinking our possibilities for acting...
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Keywords:
UB (Information technology: general issues), SOC008000 (SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General), TEC052000 (TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects), learning, TRU004000 (TRUE CRIME / Con Artists, ART060000 (ART / Performance), ethnography), perception, Hoaxes & Deceptions), JMB (Psychological methodology), deception, JHMC (Social and cultural anthropology, ASZG (Conjuring and magic), AFKP (Performance art), entertainment magic, JFHX (Hoaxes and deceptions)
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Date Added to MERLOT:
May 30, 2022
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May 4, 2025
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Julie Evey
Julie Evey (Faculty)
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