Anti-Anti-Culturalism: A Response to Edward Bever's “Culture Warrior”

Abstract

ABSTRACT In this note, I respond to Edward Bever's response to my critical review of his Realities of Witchcraft (Preternature 4, no. 2 [2015]: 203–10). While Bever's response portrays me as a “culture warrior” (Preternature 5, no. 1 [2016]: 112–20), I prefer to seek a cessation of hostilities between cultural and neurobiological approaches to magic and witchcraft. I suggest that, despite Bever's response, my original worry that his approach is reductively “anti-culturalist” remains warranted, but also point toward the possibility for rapprochement between our respective positions.