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A reader in the anthropology of religion / edited by Michael Lambek.

Contributor(s): Lambek, Michael
Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology: 2.Publisher: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Edition: Second editionDescription: xii, 679 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781405136150 (alk. paper); 1405136154 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Ethnology -- Religious aspects | ReligionDDC classification: 306.6 LOC classification: BL256 | .R43 2008Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Religion in primitive culture / Edward Burnett Taylor -- The elementary forms of religious life / Emile Durkheim -- The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism / Max Weber -- Religion as a cultural system / Clifford Geertz -- Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Religion, totemism and symbolism / W.E.H. Stanner -- Remarks on the verb "to believe" / Jean Pouillon -- Christian as believers / Malcolm Ruel -- The construction of religion as an anthropological category / Talal Asad -- The logic of signs and symbols / Susanne K. Langer -- The problem of symbols / E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- On key symbols / Sherry B. Ortner -- The Virgin of Guadalupe : a Mexican national symbol / Eric J. Wolf -- Myth in primitive psychology / Bronislaw Malinowski -- Folk dialectics of nature and culture / Marshall Sahlins -- Land animals, pure and impure / Mary Douglas -- A Jivaro version of Totem and Taboo / Claude Levi-Strauss -- Text-building, epistemology, and aesthetics in Javanese shadow theatre / Alton L. Becker -- The Winnebago trickster figure / Paul Radin -- Witchcraft and sexual relations : an exploration in the social and semantic implications of the structure of belief / Raymond C. Kelly --
The politics and poetics of transgression / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Closure and multiplication : an essay on Polynesian cosmology and ritual / Alfred Gell -- Cosmological deixis and Amerindian perspectivism / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- The control of experience : symbolic action / Godfrey Lienhardt -- Form and meaning of magical acts / Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah -- Liminality and communitas / Victor Turner -- "Jewish comes up in you from the roots" / Barbara Myerhoff -- Fate in relation to the social structure / Meyer Fortes -- Medusa's hair : an essay on personal symbols and religious experience / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Spirits and selves in Northern Sudan : the cultural therapeutics of possession and trance / Janice Boddy -- The poetics of time in Mayan divination / Dennis Tedlock -- The disconnection between power and rank as a process / Maurice Bloch -- Enactments of meaning / Roy A. Rappaport -- New heaven, new earth / Kenelm Burridge -- The genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American peasantry : devil's labor and the baptism of money / Michael Taussig -- The colonization of consciousness / John and Jean Comaroff -- Convicted by the Holy Spirit : the rhetoric of fundamental Baptist conversion / Susan F. Harding -- On being Shege in Kinshasa : children, the occult and the street / Filip De Boeck -- Civil religion in America / Robert N. Bellah -- Shamanic practices and the state in Northern Asia : views from the center and periphery / Caroline Humphrey -- "Using the past to negate the present" : ritual ethics and state rationality in Ancient China / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang -- Passional preaching, aural sensibility, and the Islamic revival in Cairo / Charles Hirschkind -- Moral landscapes : ethical discourses among Orthodox and diaspora Jains / Anne Vallely -- Candomble in pink, green, and black : re-scripting the Afro-Brazilian religious heritage in the public sphere of Salvador, Bahia / Mattijs van de Port -- Martyr vs. martyr : the sacred language of violence / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- Evidence and presence, spectral and other / Stephan Palmie.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL256 .R43 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903167472

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religion in primitive culture / Edward Burnett Taylor -- The elementary forms of religious life / Emile Durkheim -- The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism / Max Weber -- Religion as a cultural system / Clifford Geertz -- Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Religion, totemism and symbolism / W.E.H. Stanner -- Remarks on the verb "to believe" / Jean Pouillon -- Christian as believers / Malcolm Ruel -- The construction of religion as an anthropological category / Talal Asad -- The logic of signs and symbols / Susanne K. Langer -- The problem of symbols / E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- On key symbols / Sherry B. Ortner -- The Virgin of Guadalupe : a Mexican national symbol / Eric J. Wolf -- Myth in primitive psychology / Bronislaw Malinowski -- Folk dialectics of nature and culture / Marshall Sahlins -- Land animals, pure and impure / Mary Douglas -- A Jivaro version of Totem and Taboo / Claude Levi-Strauss -- Text-building, epistemology, and aesthetics in Javanese shadow theatre / Alton L. Becker -- The Winnebago trickster figure / Paul Radin -- Witchcraft and sexual relations : an exploration in the social and semantic implications of the structure of belief / Raymond C. Kelly --

The politics and poetics of transgression / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Closure and multiplication : an essay on Polynesian cosmology and ritual / Alfred Gell -- Cosmological deixis and Amerindian perspectivism / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- The control of experience : symbolic action / Godfrey Lienhardt -- Form and meaning of magical acts / Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah -- Liminality and communitas / Victor Turner -- "Jewish comes up in you from the roots" / Barbara Myerhoff -- Fate in relation to the social structure / Meyer Fortes -- Medusa's hair : an essay on personal symbols and religious experience / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Spirits and selves in Northern Sudan : the cultural therapeutics of possession and trance / Janice Boddy -- The poetics of time in Mayan divination / Dennis Tedlock -- The disconnection between power and rank as a process / Maurice Bloch -- Enactments of meaning / Roy A. Rappaport -- New heaven, new earth / Kenelm Burridge -- The genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American peasantry : devil's labor and the baptism of money / Michael Taussig -- The colonization of consciousness / John and Jean Comaroff -- Convicted by the Holy Spirit : the rhetoric of fundamental Baptist conversion / Susan F. Harding -- On being Shege in Kinshasa : children, the occult and the street / Filip De Boeck -- Civil religion in America / Robert N. Bellah -- Shamanic practices and the state in Northern Asia : views from the center and periphery / Caroline Humphrey -- "Using the past to negate the present" : ritual ethics and state rationality in Ancient China / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang -- Passional preaching, aural sensibility, and the Islamic revival in Cairo / Charles Hirschkind -- Moral landscapes : ethical discourses among Orthodox and diaspora Jains / Anne Vallely -- Candomble in pink, green, and black : re-scripting the Afro-Brazilian religious heritage in the public sphere of Salvador, Bahia / Mattijs van de Port -- Martyr vs. martyr : the sacred language of violence / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- Evidence and presence, spectral and other / Stephan Palmie.

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