Ritual and belief : readings in the anthropology of religion / edited by David Hicks.

Incluye bibliografía e índice.

1. Perspectives. Reading 1-1. Animism / Edward B. Tylor -- Reading 1-2. The Return of Totemism in Childhood / Sigmund Freud -- Reading 1-3. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life / Emile Durkheim -- 2. Myth, Cosmology, and Symbolic Classification. Reading 2-1. Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Reading 2-2. The Dogon / Marcel Griaule, Germaine Dieterlen -- Reading 2-3. Pollution / Mary Douglas -- 3. Gods, Spirits, and Souls. Reading 3-1. A Kernel of Doubt / Jack Goody -- Reading 3-2. The Universality of Ancestor Worship / Lyle B. Steadman, Craig T. Palmer, Christopher F. Tilley -- Reading 3-3. What Makes Anthropomorphism Natural: Intuitive Ontology and Cultural Representations / Pascal Boyer -- 4. Ritual. Reading 4-1. Ritual Symbolism, Morality, and Social Structure among the Ndembu / Victor W. Turner -- Reading 4-2. The Rites of Passage: Conclusions / Arnold van Gennep -- Reading 4-3. "Between Belief and Unbelief Lies the Performance of Salat": Meaning and Efficacy of a Muslim Ritual / Heiko Henkel -- 5. Practitioners of Ritual. Reading 5-1. Religious Specialists / Victor W. Turner -- Reading 5-2. The Woman Who Didn't Become a Shaman / Margery Wolf -- Reading 5-3. The Sound of Rushing Water / Michael J. Harner -- 6. Body and Mind. Reading 6-1. My Adventure with Ebene: A "Religious Experience" / Napoleon A. Chagnon -- Reading 6-2. "Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom": Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society / Beth A. Conklin -- Reading 6-3. "In Thy Blood Live": Gender and Ritual in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition / Leonie J. Archer.

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