Ritual and belief : readings in the anthropology of religion / edited by David Hicks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hicks, David, 1939-

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Religious aspects.

Ethnology.

Religion.

Religions.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 511 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, [2010]

Summary:

Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is intended to satisfy the needs of students in undergraduate courses in the anthropology of religion and comparative religion. It may be used either as a stand-alone text or as a supplement. This is a text that is more instructor- and student-friendly than any other anthology currently available.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780759111554

0759111553

9780759111561

0759111561

9780759118577

0759118574

OCLC:

457169831

Publisher Number:

99940207327