TY - BOOK AU - Stevens, Phillips AU - Stevens,Phillips TI - Anthropology of Religion: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies:4 Vol.Set SN - 9780415494236 U1 - N28 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Routledge N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; VOLUME I PART 1 Early explorations 69 1 Sacrifice 71 W. ROBERTSON SMITH 2 Animism 84 EDWARD B. TYLOR 3 Sympathetic magic 100 J.G. FRAZER 4 Excerpts from `The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life` 128 EMILE DURKHEIM 5 The rise of religions 139 MAX WEBER 6 Excerpts from `Totem and Taboo` 153 SIGMUND FREUD 7 Excerpts from `How Natives Think` LUCIEN LEVY-BRUHL 8 Excerpts from `Primitive Mentality` LUCIEN LEVY-BRUHL 9 Religion and society A.R. RADCLIFFE-BROWN 10 Excerpts from `The Rites of Passage` ARNOLD VAN GENNEP 11 Excerpts from `Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstacy` MIRCEA ELIADE 12 Religion as a cultural system CLIFFORD GEERTZ VOLUME II PART 2 Symbols 13 Symbols in Ndembu ritual V.W. TURNER 14 The Virgin of Guadalupe: a Mexican national symbol ERIC R. WOLF 15 On key symbols SHERRY ORTNER 16 Excerpts from `Medusa`s Hair: an Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience` GANANATH OBEYESEKERE PART 3 Supernatural beings 17 God in African mythology E.G. PARRINDER 18 The Semai thunder god ROBERT KNOX DENTAN 19 Making the king divine: a case study in ritual regicide from Timor DAVID HICKS 20 The Winnebago trickster figure PAUL RADIK 21 The universality of ancestor worship 138 LYLE B. STEADMAN, CRAIG T. PALMER AND CHRISTOPHER F. TILLEY 22 Sorcerers, ghosts, and polluting women: an analysis of religious belief and population control SHIRLEY LINDENBAUM PART 4 Magical power and forces 23 Religious perspectives in anthropology DOROTHY LEE 24 Excerpt from `Magic, Science and Religion` BRONISLAW MALINOWSK.I 25 Ritual uncleanness MARY DOUGLAS 26 Taboo MARY DOUGLAS 27 Divination LUCY MAIR 28 Divination - a new perspective OMAR KHAYYAM MOORE 29 Baseball magic GEORGE GMELCH 30 Women`s aggressive use of genital power in Africa PHILLIPS STEVENS, JR. PART 5 Human agents of supernatural danger 31 Witchcraft and sorcery REO FORTUNE 32 The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events E.E. EVANS-PRITCHARD 33 Synthetic images RODNEY NEEDHAM 34 Witchcraft and social identity PAUL BOYER AND STEPHEN NISSENBAUM 35 An anthropological perspective on the witchcraze JAMES L. BRAIN 36 They cut Segametsi into parts: ritual murder, youth, and the politics of knowledge in Botswana CHARLANNE BURKE VOLUME III PART 6 Myth 37 Excerpt from `Myth in Primitive Psychology` BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI 38 Myths and rituals: a general theory CLYDE KLUCKHOHN 39 The hero of tradition LORD RAGLAN (FITZROY RICHARD SOMERSET) 40 The structural study of myth CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS 41 The dreaming W.E.H. STANN`ER 42 Genesis as myth EDMUND LEACH PART 7 Ritual 43 Ritual man in Africa ROBIN HORTON 44 The vision quest ROBERT W. LOWIE 45 Play and liminality in rites of passage: from elder to ancestor in West Africa PHILLIPS STEVENS, JR. 46 Revisiting "magical fright" BRUCE LINCOLN PART 8 Religious practitioners 47 Religious specialists VICTOR W. TURNER 48 The shaman: a Siberian spiritualist WILLIAM HOWELLS 49 Dark side of the shaman MICHAEL FOBES BROWN PART 9 Women and gender 50 "The Night I Got the Holy Ghost...": Holy Ghost narratives and the Pentecostal conversion process ELAINE J. LAWLESS 51 Spirits and selves in Northern Sudan: the cultural therapeutics of possession and trance JANICE BODDY 52 The hijras of India: cultural and individual dimensions of an institutionalized third gender role SERENA NANDA PART 10 Belief 53 Christians as believers MALCOLM RUEL 54 Demanding deities and reluctant devotees: belief and unbelief in the Trinidadian Orisa movement STEPHEN D. GLAZIER PART 11 Ecology 55 Ritual regulation of environmental relations among a New Guinea people ROY A. RAPPAPORT 56 The cultural ecology of India`s sacred cattle MARVIN HARRIS 57 Cosmology as ecological analysis: a view from the rain forest ; V1; Enter Respective Volume Title.--; V2; Enter Respective Volume Title.--; V3; Enter Respective Volume Title.--; V4; Enter Respective Volume Title ER -