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Ritual and belief : readings in the anthropology of religion /
Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft. The choice of readings is eclectic: no single anthropological approach or theoretical perspective dominates the text. Theoretical significance, scholarly eminence of the aut...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
AltaMira Press,
c2010.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Perspectives. Reading 1-1. Animism / Edward B. Tylor
- Reading 1-2. The Return of Totemism in Childhood / Sigmund Freud
- Reading 1-3. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life / Emile Durkheim
- 2. Myth, Cosmology, and Symbolic Classification. Reading 2-1. Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth / Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Reading 2-2. The Dogon / Marcel Griaule, Germaine Dieterlen
- Reading 2-3. Pollution / Mary Douglas
- 3. Gods, Spirits, and Souls. Reading 3-1. A Kernel of Doubt / Jack Goody
- Reading 3-2. The Universality of Ancestor Worship / Lyle B. Steadman, Craig T. Palmer, Christopher F. Tilley
- Reading 3-3. What Makes Anthropomorphism Natural: Intuitive Ontology and Cultural Representations / Pascal Boyer
- 4. Ritual. Reading 4-1. Ritual Symbolism, Morality, and Social Structure among the Ndembu / Victor W. Turner
- Reading 4-2. The Rites of Passage: Conclusions / Arnold van Gennep
- Reading 4-3. "Between Belief and Unbelief Lies the Performance of Salat": Meaning and Efficacy of a Muslim Ritual / Heiko Henkel
- 5. Practitioners of Ritual. Reading 5-1. Religious Specialists / Victor W. Turner
- Reading 5-2. The Woman Who Didn't Become a Shaman / Margery Wolf
- Reading 5-3. The Sound of Rushing Water / Michael J. Harner
- 6. Body and Mind. Reading 6-1. My Adventure with Ebene: A "Religious Experience" / Napoleon A. Chagnon
- Reading 6-2. "Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom": Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society / Beth A. Conklin
- Reading 6-3. "In Thy Blood Live": Gender and Ritual in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition / Leonie J. Archer
- 7. Magic and Witchcraft. Reading 7-1. Sympathetic Magic / James G. Frazer
- Reading 7-2. Men Bewitch Others When They Hate Them / E. E. Evans-Pritchard
- Reading 7-3. Baseball Magic / George Gmelch
- 8. Death. Reading 8-1. "Voodoo" Death / Walter B. Cannon
- Reading 8-2. Symbolic Associations of Death / Peter Metcalf, Richard Huntington
- Reading 8-3. Making the King Divine: A Case Study in Ritual Regicide from Timor / David Hicks
- 9. Gender and Sexuality. Reading 9-1. The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol / Eric R. Wolf
- Reading 9-2. The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role / Serena Nanda
- Reading 9-3. The Syphilitic Shock / Stanislav Andreski
- 10. The Natural Environment. Reading 10-1. Cosmology as Ecological Analysis: A View from the Rain Forest / G. Reichel-Dolmatoff
- Reading 10-2. Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People / Roy A. Rappaport
- Reading 10-3. Water Witching: An Interpretation of a Ritual Pattern in a Rural American Community / Evon Z. Vogt
- 11. Agents of Change. Reading 11-1. Judaism, Christianity, and the Socio-Economic Order / Max Weber
- Reading 11-2. Revitalization Movements / Anthony F. C. Wallace
- Reading 11-3. Cargo Cults / Peter M. Worsley
- 12. New Religious Movements. Reading 12-1. Apocalypse at Jonestown / John R. Hall
- Reading 12-2. The Unification Church / Eileen Barker
- Reading 12-3. Faith beyond Belief: Evangelical Protestant Conceptions of Faith and the Resonance of Anti-Humanism / Omri Elisha.