Ritual and belief : readings in the anthropology of religion /
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| Imprint: | Boston : McGraw-Hill College, c1999. |
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| Description: | xxv, 454 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3608081 |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Perspectives
- Reading 1-1. Animism
- Reading 1-2. The Return of Totemism in Childhood
- Reading 1-3. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
- Reading 1-4. Neo-Tylorianism Ask Yourself
- Chapter 2. Myth, Cosmology, and Symbolic Classification
- Reading 2-1. The Role of Myth in Life
- Reading 2-2. Genesis as Myth
- Reading 2-3. The Dogon
- Reading 2-4. Pollution Religion in the News: A Legendary Hero Guides a Reborn Kygyszstan
- Chapter 3. Gods, Spirits, and Souls
- Reading 3-1. Magic and Religion
- Reading 3-2. The Problem of Symbols
- Reading 3-3. The Ghost Cult in Bunyoro
- Reading 3-4. The Universality of Ancester Worship Ask Yourself
- Chapter 4. Ritual
- Reading 4-1. Ritual
- Reading 4-2. Ritual Symbolism, Morality, and Social Structure among the Ndembu
- Reading 4-3. Conclusions
- Reading 4-5. The Morphology and Function of Magic: A Comparative Study Of Trobriand and Zande Ritual and Spells Religion in the News: Mozambique Enlists Healers in AIDS Prevention
- Chapter 5. Practitioners of Ritual
- Reading 5-1. Religious Specialists
- Reading 5-2. The Woman Who Didn't Become a Shaman
- Reading 5-3. The Sound of Rushing Water
- Reading 5-4. The Sorcerer and His Magic Religion in the News: Mozambique Enlists Healers in AIDS Prevention
- Chapter 6. Body and Mind
- Reading 6-1. My Adventure with Ebene: A Religious Experience'
- Reading 6-2. 'Thus are Our Bodies, Thus was Our Custom:' Mortuary Cannibalism in An Amazonian Society
- Reading 6-3. 'In thy blood live': Gender and Ritual in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition
- Reading 6-4. The Sweat Lodge: Inside Ask Yourself
- Chapter 7. Magic and Witchcraft
- Reading 7-1. Sympathetic Magic
- Reading 7-2. Men Bewitch Others When They Hate Them
- Reading 7-3. Witchcraft and Social Identity
- Reading 7-4. Synthetic Images
- Chapter 8. Death
- Reading 8-1. the Contemporary American Funeral Ritual
- Reading 8-2. 'Voodoo' Death
- Reading 8-3. Symbolic Associations of Death
- Reading 8-4. Making the King Divine: A Case Study in Ritual Regicide from Timor Ask Yourself
- Chapter 9. Sexuality and Gender
- Reading 9-1. Peggy Reeves Sanday: Epilogue
- Reading 9-2. The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol
- Reading 9-3. The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role
- Reading 9-4. The Syphilitic Shock Ask Yourself
- Chapter 10. The Natural Environment
- Reading 10-1. Cosmology as Ecological Analysis: A View from the Rain Forest
- Reading 10-2. Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People
- Reading 10-3. Ainu Worldview and Bear Hunting Strategies
- Reading 10-4. Walter Witching: An Interpretation of a Ritual Pattern in a Rural American Community Ask Yourself
- Chapter 11. Agents of Change
- Reading 11-1. Judaism, Christianity, and the Socio-Economic Order
- Reading 11-2. Revitalization Movements
- Reading 11-3. Cargo Cults
- Reading 11-4. Alice Beck Keho
