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| Preface to Second Edition | |
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| General Introduction | |
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| The Context of Understanding and Debate | |
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| Opening Frameworks | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Religion in Primitive Culture | |
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| The Elementary Forms of Religious Life | |
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| The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | |
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| Religion as a Cultural System | |
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| Skeptical Rejoinders | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough | |
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| Religion, Totemism and Symbolism | |
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| Remarks on the Verb "To Believe" | |
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| Christians as Believers | |
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| The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category | |
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| Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds | |
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| Signs and Symbols | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Logic of Signs and Symbols | |
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| The Problem of Symbols | |
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| On Key Symbols | |
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| The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol | |
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| Structure, Function, and Interpretation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Myth in Primitive Psychology | |
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| Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture | |
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| Land Animals, Pure and Impure | |
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| A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo | |
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| Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre | |
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| Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Winnebago Trickster Figure | |
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| Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief | |
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| The Politics and Poetics of Transgression | |
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| Conceptualizing the Cosmos | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual | |
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| Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism | |
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| Praxis: Religious Action | |
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| The Movement in Ritual: Emergence | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action | |
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| Form and Meaning of Magical Acts | |
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| Liminality and Communitas | |
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| Gender, Subjectivity, and the Body | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Jewish Comes Up in You from the Roots" | |
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| Fate in Relation to the Social Structure | |
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| Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience | |
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| Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance | |
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| The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination | |
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| What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process | |
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| Enactments of Meaning | |
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| Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change | |
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| Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict | |
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| Introduction | |
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| New Heaven, New Earth | |
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| The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money | |
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| The Colonization of Consciousness | |
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| Convicted by the Holy Spirit: The Rhetoric of Fundamental Baptist Conversion | |
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| On Being Shege in Kinshasa: Children, the Occult and the Street | |
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| Religious Ethics and Politics in the State, Public Sphere, and Transnational Scene | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Civil Religion in America | |
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| Shamanic Practices and the State in Northern Asia: Views from the Center and Periphery | |
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| "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China | |
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| Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo | |
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| Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains | |
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| Candomble in Pink, Green and Black: Re-scripting the Afro-Brazilian Religious Heritage in the Public Sphere of Salvador, Bahia | |
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| Martyr vs. Martyr: The Sacred Language of Violence | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Evidence and Presence, Spectral and Other | |
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| Research Tools | |
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| A Guide to the Literature | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |