Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion by Hicks , David;

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This revision of our highly successful First Edition reader for the Anthropology of Religion course includes eleven all-new articles, new "Religion in the News" boxes in every chapter, significantly expanded "Introductions" to every chapter, a brand-new chapter on modern cults, a list of website resources for every chapter, an improved glossary, and expanded "Commentaries".

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Perspectives

Reading 1-1: Edward B. Tylor: Animism

Reading 1-2: Sigmund Freud: The Return of Totemism in Childhood

Reading 1-3: Emile Durkheim: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Reading 1-4: Robin Horton: Neo-Tylorianism

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Chapter 2: Myth, Cosmology, and Symbolic Classification

Reading 2-1: Bronsilaw Malinowski: The Role of Myth in Life

Reading 2-2: Edmund Leach: Genesis as Myth

Reading 2-3: Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen: The Dogon

Reading 2-4: Mary Douglas: Pollution

Religion in the News: A Legendary Hero Guides a Reborn Kygyszstan

Chapter 3: Gods, Spirits, and Souls

Reading 3-1: James G. Frazer: Magic and Religion

Reading 3-2: E.E. Evans-Pritchard: The Problem of Symbols

Reading 3-3: John Beattie: The Ghost Cult in Bunyoro

Reading 3-4: Lyle B. Steadman, Craig T. Palmer, and

Christopher F. Tilley: The Universality of Ancester Worship

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Chapter 4: Ritual

Reading 4-1: Edmund R. Leach: Ritual

Reading 4-2: Victor Turner: Ritual Symbolism, Morality, and Social Structure among the Ndembu

Reading 4-3: Arnold van Gennep: Conclusions

Reading 4-5: E.E. Evans-Pritchard: 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: Victor W. Turner: Religious Specialists

Reading 5-2: Margery Wolf: The Woman Who Didn’t Become a Shaman

Reading 5-3: Michael J. Harner: The Sound of Rushing Water

Reading 5-4: Claude Levi-Strauss: The Sorcerer and His Magic

Religion in the News: Mozambique Enlists Healers in AIDS Prevention

Chapter 6: Body and Mind

Reading 6-1: Napoleon A. Chagnon: My Adventure with Ebene: A Religious Experience”

Reading 6-2: Beth A. Conklin: “Thus are Our Bodies, Thus was Our Custom:” Mortuary Cannibalism in An Amazonian Society

Reading 6-3: Leonie J. Archer: “In thy blood live”: Gender and Ritual in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition

Reading 6-4: William K. Powers: The Sweat Lodge: Inside

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Chapter 7: Magic and Witchcraft

Reading 7-1: James G. Frazer: Sympathetic Magic

Reading 7-2: E.E. Evans-Pritchard: Men Bewitch Others When They Hate Them

Reading 7-3: Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum: Witchcraft and Social Identity

Reading 7-4: Rodney Needham: Synthetic Images

Chapter 8: Death

Reading 8-1: Walter W. Whitaker III: The Contemporary American Funeral Ritual

Reading 8-2: Walter B. Cannon: “Voodoo” Death

Reading 8-3: Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington: Symbolic Associations of Death

Reading 8-4: David Hicks: Making the King Divine: A

Case Study in Ritual Regicide from Timor

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Chapter 9: Sexuality and Gender

Reading 9-1: Peggy Reeves Sanday: Epilogue

Reading 9-2: Eric R. Wolf: The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol

Reading 9-3: Serena Nanda: The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role

Reading 9-4: Stansilav Andreski: The Syphilitic Shock

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Chapter 10: The Natural Environment

Reading 10-1: G. Reichel-Dolmatoff: Cosmology as Ecological Analysis: A View from the Rain Forest

Reading 10-2: Roy A. Rappaport: Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People

Reading 10-3: Takashi Irimoto: Ainu Worldview and Bear Hunting Strategies

Reading 10-4: Evon Z. Vogt: Walter Witching: An Interpretation of a Ritual Pattern in a Rural American Community

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Chapter 11: Agents of Change

Reading 11-1: Max Weber: Judaism, Christianity, and the Socio-Economic Order

Reading 11-2: Anthony F.C. Wallace: Revitalization Movements

Reading 11-3: Peter M. Worsely: Cargo Cults

Reading 11-4: Alice Beck Kehoe: The Ghost Dance Religion

Religion in the News: German Rite of Passage

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Chapter 12: New Religious Movements

Reading 12-1: John R. Hall: Apocalypse at Jonestown

Reading 12-2: Eileen Barker: The Unification Church

Reading 12-3: Loretta Orion: The Transforming Influence of American Gatherings

Reading 12-4: Barry Chavannes: The Rastafari Abroad

Religion in the News: An Apocalyptic Mystery

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Glossary

References

Acknowledgements

Index

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