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Ritual and Belief Readings in the Anthropology of Religion

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ISBN-10: 0072414898

ISBN-13: 9780072414899

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: David Hicks

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List price: $97.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 7/23/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 552
Size: 7.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Perspectives
Animism
The Return of Totemism in Childhood
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Neo-Tylorianism Ask Yourself
Myth, Cosmology, and Symbolic Classification
The Role of Myth in Life
Genesis as Myth
The Dogon
Pollution Religion in the News: A Legendary Hero Guides a Reborn Kygyszstan
Gods, Spirits, and Souls
Magic and Religion
The Problem of Symbols
The Ghost Cult in Bunyoro
The Universality of Ancester Worship Ask Yourself
Ritual
Ritual
Ritual Symbolism, Morality, and Social Structure among the Ndembu
Conclusions
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
Practitioners of Ritual
Religious Specialists
The Woman Who Didn't Become a Shaman
The Sound of Rushing Water
The Sorcerer and His Magic Religion in the News: Mozambique Enlists Healers in AIDS Prevention
Body and Mind
My Adventure with Ebene: A Religious Experience'
'Thus are Our Bodies, Thus was Our Custom:' Mortuary Cannibalism in An Amazonian Society
'In thy blood live': Gender and Ritual in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition
The Sweat Lodge: Inside Ask Yourself
Magic and Witchcraft
Sympathetic Magic
Men Bewitch Others When They Hate Them
Witchcraft and Social Identity
Synthetic Images
Death
the Contemporary American Funeral Ritual
'Voodoo' Death
Symbolic Associations of Death
Making the King Divine: A Case Study in Ritual Regicide from Timor Ask Yourself
Sexuality and Gender
Peggy Reeves Sanday: Epilogue
The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol
The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role
The Syphilitic Shock Ask Yourself
The Natural Environment
Cosmology as Ecological Analysis: A View from the Rain Forest
Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People
Ainu Worldview and Bear Hunting Strategies
Walter Witching: An Interpretation of a Ritual Pattern in a Rural American Community Ask Yourself
Agents of Change
Judaism, Christianity, and the Socio-Economic Order
Revitalization Movements
Cargo Cults
Alice Beck Keho
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