The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot

by Patrick Maille

Overview

A readable and extensive history of the development and evolution of Tarot and its place in culture

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496832993
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	03/19/2021
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Patrick Maille is professor of history at Oklahoma Panhandle State University where he teaches various courses including one on the history of magic.

Editorial Reviews

,, an engaging and accessible introduction to a popular topic.--D. A. Harvey, New College of Florida "CHOICE"

Using Maille's work as a solid foundation on which to build the exploration of cultural networks that sustain tarot, future students of popular culture in general and tarot specifically will be well positioned to uncover not only the cultural meanings that circulate in the tarot community and are propelled into the American mainstream but also to unearth the undercurrents of American beliefs, attitudes, and practices that converge in tarot.--Natalia Kovalyova, University of Texas at Austin "Journal of Popular Culture"

The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot deals with tarot's history, artwork, and cultural significance in an informative and useful way. Patrick Maille's engaging and conversational style makes for a compelling book.--Charles Coletta Jr., Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University

Patrick Maille provides a view of Tarot ranging from its creation in fifteenth-century Northern Italy to twenty-first-century appearances in popular culture. If Tarot was an actor we'd watch him or her morph from early Renaissance gamester to occult philosopher to a modern superhero, with stints as con man and comic in-between. Read this book to appreciate the wide variety of roles that Tarot has assumed and the historical as well as contemporary people who have invented or defined these roles. This work is essential for anyone who wants to study or understand the place of Tarot in today's Western pop culture.--Mary K. Greer, author of Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation

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