Ritual and Belief

Readings in the Anthropology of Religion

AvDavid Hicks

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft. The choice of readings is eclectic: no single anthropological approach or theoretical perspective dominates the text. Theoretical significance, scholarly eminence of the author, and inherent interest provide the principal criteria, and each reading complements its companion chapters, which are pedagogically coherent rather than ad hoc assemblages. Included among the theoretical perspectives are structural-functionalism, structuralism, Malinowskian functionalism, cultural materialism, and cultural evolutionism; also included are the synchronic and diachronic approaches. The book offers a mixture of classic readings and more recent contributions, and the "world religions" are included along with examples from the religions of traditionally non-literate cultures. As diverse a range of religious traditions as possible has been embraced, from various ethnic groups, traditions, and places.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-06-16
Mått:180 x 256 x 33 mm
Vikt:1 093 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:AltaMira Press
Antal sidor:496
Upplaga:3
Förlag:AltaMira Press
ISBN:9780759111561

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

David Hicks is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Recensioner i media

David Hicks has a magician's touch in blending essential readings in the history of an anthropological approach to religion with an array of cross-cultural case studies that draw on the earlier theorists and display the diversity of not only religious beliefs and rituals but of ethnographic interpretation itself. Distilling the large corpus of anthropological literature on religion, past and present, is no easy task. All anthologies suffer from a relevance half-life, but Professor Hicks is to be commended for building on the pillars of past scholarship with the best recent research in the field and from the field. I plan to use the third edition and look forward to the innovations to be expected in a fourth, and why not a fifth.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Chapter 1. PerspectivesChapter 3 Reading 1-1 Edward B. Tylor: AnimismChapter 4 Reading 1-2 Sigmund Freud: The Return of Totenism in ChildhoodChapter 5 Reading 1-3 Emile Durkheim: The Elementary Forms of the Religious LifePart 6 Chapter 2. Myth, Cosmology, and Symbolic ClassificationChapter 7 Reading 2-1 Claude Lévi-Strauss: Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a MythChapter 8 Reading 2-2 Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen: The DogonChapter 9 Reading 2-3 Mary Douglas: PollutionPart 10 Chapter 3. Gods, Spirits, and SoulsChapter 11 Reading 3-1 Jack Goody: A Kernel of DoubtChapter 12 Reading 3-2 Lyle B. Steadman, Craig T. Palmer, and Christopher F. Tilley: The Universality of Ancestor WorshipChapter 13 Reading 3-3 Pascal Boyer: What Makes Anthropomorphism Natural: Intuitive Ontology and Cultural RepresentationsPart 14 Chapter 4. RitualChapter 15 Reading 4-1 Victor W. Turner: Ritual Symbolism, Morality, and Social Structure among the NdembuChapter 16 Reading 4-2 Arnold van Gennep: The Rites of Passage: ConclusionsChapter 17 Reading 4-3 Heiko Henkel: "Between Belief and Unbelief Lies the Performance of Salat": Meaning and Efficacy of a Muslim RitualPart 18 Chapter 5. Practitioners of RitualChapter 19 Reading 5-1 Victor W. Turner: Religious SpecialistsChapter 20 Reading 5-2 Margery Wolf: The Woman Who Didn't Become a ShamanChapter 21 Reading 5-3 Michael J. Harner: The Sound of Rushing WaterPart 22 Chapter 6. Body and MindChapter 23 Reading 6-1 Napolean A. Chagnon: My Adventure with Ebene: A "Religious Experience"Chapter 24 Reading 6-2 Beth A. Conklin: "Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom": Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian SocietyChapter 25 Reading 6-3 Leonie J. Archer: "In Thy Blood Live": Gender and Ritual in the Judaeo-Christian TraditionPart 26 Chapter 7. Magic and WitchcraftChapter 27 Reading 7-1 James G. Frazer: Sympathetic MagicChapter 28 Reading 7-2 E. E. Evans-Pritchard: Men Bewitch Others When They Hate ThemChapter 29 Reading 7-3 George Gmelch: Baseball MagicPart 30 Chapter 8. DeathChapter 31 Reading 8-1 Walter B. Cannon: "Voodoo" DeathChapter 32 Reading 8-2 Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington: Symbolic Associations of DeathChapter 33 Reading 8-3 David Hicks: Making the King Divine: A Case Study in Ritual Regicide from TimorPart 34 Chapter 9. Gender and SexualityChapter 35 Reading 9-1 Eric R. Wolf: The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National SymbolChapter 36 Reading 9-2 Serena Nanda: The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender RoleChapter 37 Reading 9-3 Stanislav Andreski: The Syphilitic ShockPart 38 Chapter 10. The Natural EnvironmentChapter 39 Reading 10-1 G. Reichel-Dolmatoff: Cosmology as Ecological Analysis: A View from the Rain ForestChapter 40 Reading 10-2 Roy A. Rappaport: Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea PeopleChapter 41 Reading 10-3 Evon Z. Vogt: Water Witching: An Interpretation of a Ritual Pattern in a Rural American CommunityPart 42 Chapter 11. Agents of ChangeChapter 43 Reading 11-1 Max Weber: Judaism, Christianity, and the Socio-Economic OrderChapter 44 Reading 11-2 Anthony F. C. Wallace: Revitalization MovementsChapter 45 Reading 11-3 Peter M. Worsley: Cargo CultsPart 46 Chapter 12. New Religious MovementsChapter 47 Reading 12-1 John R. Hall: Apocalypse at JonestownChapter 48 Reading 12-2 Eileen Barker: The Unification ChurchChapter 49 Reading 12-3 Omri Elisha: Faith beyond Belief: Evangelical Protestant Conceptions of Faith and the Resonance of Anti-HumanismPart 50 GlossaryPart 51 General References