On Ritual

Bruce Lincoln is the Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History of Religions at the University of Chicago. His previous books include Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar’s Hidden Past and his Protégé’s Unsolved Murder (2023), Religion, Culture and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran (2021), and Old Thiess: A Livonian Werewolf (with Carlo Ginzburg, 2020).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Figures and Tables1 Introduction2 Julia’s Funeral, Rome, 69 B.C.E.3 Retrieving Alicia’s Soul, Highland Guatemala, July 19464 Krichinsky Thanksgivings, Baltimore, Late 1940s and Early 1950s5 The Malagan for Bukbuk, New Ireland, April 19796 A Lakota Naming Ceremony, Summer 19917 ConclusionsBibliographyIndex