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| Preface | |
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| Anthropology and Religion Words and Things | |
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| Words and Things | |
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| Is Religion a Human Universal? | |
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| The Meaning of Religion | |
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| The Anthropology of Religion | |
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| Types of Anthropological Studies of Religion | |
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| Types of Religion | |
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| Religions versus Religion | |
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| Religion Here and There: Western Notions in Comparative Perspective | |
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| Religion Is Primarily a Matter of Belief or Faith | |
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| Religion and Identity: One at a Time | |
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| Religion Is a Separate Realm of Life | |
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| Religion Is a Associated with a Special Building | |
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| Religion Concerns Transcendental Rather Than Practical Matters | |
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| Religion Is the Basis of Morality | |
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| Religion, Evolution, and Prehistory | |
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| The Bio-evolution of Religion | |
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| When Did Religion Develop? | |
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| The Origin of Religion: How It Began | |
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| The Nature of Early Religion | |
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| His Religion Evolved? | |
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| Religion, Adaptation, and the Environment | |
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| Ecological Functionalism | |
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| Religion as a Regulator of Ecological Processes | |
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| Cultural Materialist Explanations of Seemingly Maladaptive Ritual Practices (or, Solving the Riddles of Culture) | |
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| Religion and Environmentalism | |
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| The Problem of Reaching Conclusions about Religion and Adaptation | |
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| Natural Symbols | |
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| Are There Natural Symbols? | |
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| The Natural Environment as Symbolism | |
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| Animals | |
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| Colors | |
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| Lateral Symbolism: Left-and Right-Handedness | |
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| Percussion Sounds | |
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| The Head and Its Parts | |
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| Natural Symbols and Natural Religion | |
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| Myth and Ritual, Old and New | |
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| What More Exactly Is Myth? | |
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| Theories, Approaches, and Explanations of Myth | |
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| The Protagonists of Myth | |
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| Myth and Gender | |
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| Contemporary Urban Myths | |
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| Contemporary Rumor Myths | |
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| Ritual and Belief | |
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| The Nature of Ritual | |
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| Religious Ritual | |
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| Some Common Forms of Religious Ritual | |
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| Some Common Types of Ritual | |
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| The Structure of Ritual According to Arnold van Gennep | |
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| Journeys and Boundaries | |
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| Rites of Passage | |
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| Mortuary Rituals | |
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| Bad Death | |
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| Funerals as Rites of Passage | |
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| Witchcraft and Sorcery: Past and Present, Far and Near | |
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| Traditional Witchcraft and Sorcery in Small-Scale Societies | |
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| Witchcraft in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe | |
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| Modern Witchcraft or Neo-paganism | |
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| Spirit Possession, Spirit Mediumship, and Shamanism | |
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| Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship | |
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| Shamanism | |
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| Shamanism in the Modern World | |
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| Religious Movements and the Origins of Religions | |
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| Three Native American Movements | |
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| Cargo Cults in Melanesia | |
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| A Religious Movement in Borneo | |
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| Revitalization? | |
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| Anthropology and the World Religions | |
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| The World Religions from an Anthropological Perspective | |
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| Anthropological Studies of the World Religions | |
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| The Conversion of Indigenous Peoples to and within the World Religions | |
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| Anthropology and Religion on a Larger Canvas: Religious Change under Socialism and Capitalism | |
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| Religious Change in Socialist and Postsocialist Societies | |
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| Socialism and Shamanism in Siberia and Mongolia | |
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| Religion under Socialism in China | |
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| Religion, Social Complexity, and Socialism in Cuba | |
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| Vietnam and Laos as Socialist States | |
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| The Return of the Occult | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References and Further Reading | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |