| About the book | |
This revision of our highly successful First Edition reader for the Anthropology of Religion course includes eleven all-new articles, new "Religion in the News" boxes in every chapter, significantly expanded "Introductions" to every chapter, a brand-new chapter on modern cults, a list of website resources for every chapter, an improved glossary, and expanded "Commentaries". | |
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| About the author | |
David Hicks David Hicks earned his Ph.D at the University of Oxford after completing nineteen months of field research in East Timor, Southeast Asia. In addition to his work in East Timor, Dr. Hicks conducted field research on the island of Flores in Indonesia. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including research awards from the National Science Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the American Philosophical Society. In addition to Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion, he is also the author of Tetum Ghosts & Kin (1976), Structural Analysis in Anthropology: Case Studies from Indonesia & Brazil (1978), A Maternal Religion: The Role of Women in Tetum Myth & Ritual (1984), Kinship and Religion in eastern Indonesia (1990), and is co-author of Cultural Anthropology (1994; 1996) with Margaret A. Gwynne. Dr. Hicks is currently Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Stonybrook. | |
| Table of contents | |
Chapter 1: Perspectives Reading 1-1: Edward B. Tylor: Animism Reading 1-2: Sigmund Freud: The Return of Totemism in Childhood Reading 1-3: Emile Durkheim: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life Reading 1-4: Robin Horton: Neo-Tylorianism Ask Yourself Chapter 2: Myth, Cosmology, and Symbolic Classification Reading 2-1: Bronsilaw Malinowski: The Role of Myth in Life Reading 2-2: Edmund Leach: Genesis as Myth Reading 2-3: Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen: The Dogon Reading 2-4: Mary Douglas: Pollution Religion in the News: A Legendary Hero Guides a Reborn Kygyszstan Chapter 3: Gods, Spirits, and Souls Reading 3-1: James G. Frazer: Magic and Religion Reading 3-2: E.E. Evans-Pritchard: The Problem of Symbols Reading 3-3: John Beattie: The Ghost Cult in Bunyoro Reading 3-4: Lyle B. Steadman, Craig T. Palmer, and Christopher F. Tilley: The Universality of Ancester Worship Ask Yourself Chapter 4: Ritual Reading 4-1: Edmund R. Leach: Ritual Reading 4-2: Victor Turner: Ritual Symbolism, Morality, and Social Structure among the Ndembu Reading 4-3: Arnold van Gennep: Conclusions Reading 4-5: E.E. Evans-Pritchard: The Morphology and Function of Magic: A Comparative Study Of Trobriand and Zande Ritual and Spells Religion in the News: Mozambique Enlists Healers in AIDS Prevention Chapter 5: Practitioners of Ritual Reading 5-1: Victor W. Turner: Religious Specialists Reading 5-2: Margery Wolf: The Woman Who Didn?t Become a Shaman Reading 5-3: Michael J. Harner: The Sound of Rushing Water Reading 5-4: Claude Levi-Strauss: The Sorcerer and His Magic Religion in the News: Mozambique Enlists Healers in AIDS Prevention Chapter 6: Body and Mind Reading 6-1: Napoleon A. Chagnon: My Adventure with Ebene: A Religious Experience? Reading 6-2: Beth A. Conklin: ?Thus are Our Bodies, Thus was Our Custom:? Mortuary Cannibalism in An Amazonian Society Reading 6-3: Leonie J. Archer: ?In thy blood live?: Gender and Ritual in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition Reading 6-4: William K. Powers: The Sweat Lodge: Inside Ask Yourself Chapter 7: Magic and Witchcraft Reading 7-1: James G. Frazer: Sympathetic Magic Reading 7-2: E.E. Evans-Pritchard: Men Bewitch Others When They Hate Them Reading 7-3: Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum: Witchcraft and Social Identity Reading 7-4: Rodney Needham: Synthetic Images Chapter 8: Death Reading 8-1: Walter W. Whitaker III: The Contemporary American Funeral Ritual Reading 8-2: Walter B. Cannon: ?Voodoo? Death Reading 8-3: Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington: Symbolic Associations of Death Reading 8-4: David Hicks: Making the King Divine: A Case Study in Ritual Regicide from Timor Ask Yourself Chapter 9: Sexuality and Gender Reading 9-1: Peggy Reeves Sanday: Epilogue Reading 9-2: Eric R. Wolf: The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol Reading 9-3: Serena Nanda: The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role Reading 9-4: Stansilav Andreski: The Syphilitic Shock Ask Yourself Chapter 10: The Natural Environment Reading 10-1: G. Reichel-Dolmatoff: Cosmology as Ecological Analysis: A View from the Rain Forest Reading 10-2: Roy A. Rappaport: Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People Reading 10-3: Takashi Irimoto: Ainu Worldview and Bear Hunting Strategies Reading 10-4: Evon Z. Vogt: Walter Witching: An Interpretation of a Ritual Pattern in a Rural American Community Ask Yourself Chapter 11: Agents of Change Reading 11-1: Max Weber: Judaism, Christianity, and the Socio-Economic Order Reading 11-2: Anthony F.C. Wallace: Revitalization Movements Reading 11-3: Peter M. Worsely: Cargo Cults Reading 11-4: Alice Beck Kehoe: The Ghost Dance Religion Religion in the News: German Rite of Passage Ask Yourself Chapter 12: New Religious Movements Reading 12-1: John R. Hall: Apocalypse at Jonestown Reading 12-2: Eileen Barker: The Unification Church Reading 12-3: Loretta Orion: The Transforming Influence of American Gatherings Reading 12-4: Barry Chavannes: The Rastafari Abroad Religion in the News: An Apocalyptic Mystery Ask Yourself Glossary References Acknowledgements Index | |
