Religion, anthropology, and cognitive science /

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Imprint:	Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2007.
Description:	xxiv, 286 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Ritual studies monograph series Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs.
Subject:	Ethnology -- Religious aspects. Cognition and culture. Religion. Cognition and culture. Ethnology -- Religious aspects. Religion.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6659608

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Other authors / contributors:	Whitehouse, Harvey. Laidlaw, James.
ISBN:	9781594601071 (alk. paper) 1594601070 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / James Laidlaw & Harvey Whitehouse. Pt. 1. Core perspectives in the anthropology of religion. Anthropology and anthropomorphism in religion / Stewart Elliott Guthrie
Durkheimian anthropology and religion: going in and out of each other's bodies / Maurice Bloch
Malinowski and magical ritual / Jesper Sørensen
How "natives" don't think: the apotheosis of overinterpretation / Jonathan A. Lanman. Pt. 2. Core topics in the anthropology of religion. Witchcraft and sorcery / Emma Cohen
Ancestors and the afterlife / Rita Astuti
Gods / Justin L. Barrett. Pt. 3. Social anthropology, religion, and the cognitive sciences. A well-disposed social anthropologist's problems with the 'cognitive science of religion' / James Laidlaw
Towards and integration of ethnography, history, and the cognitive science of religion / Harvey Whitehouse.

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