A reader in the anthropology of religion /
A reader in the anthropology of religion /
edited by Michael Lambek.
- x, 620 : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 2 .
- Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 2. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-613) and index.
The Context of Understanding and Debate. Religion in Primitive Culture / The Elementary Forms of Religious Life / The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Religion as a Cultural System / Skeptical Rejoinders. Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough / Religion, Totemism and Symbolism / Christians as Believers / The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category / Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds. The Logic of Signs and Symbols / The Problem of Symbols / On Key Symbols / The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol / Structure, Function, and Interpretation. Myth in Primitive Psychology / Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture / Land Animals, Pure and Impure / A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo / Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre / Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder. The Winnebago Trickster Figure / Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief / The Politics and Poetics of Transgression / Conceptualizing the Cosmos. Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual / Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism / Praxis: Religious Action -- The Movement of Ritual: Emergence. The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action / Form and Meaning of Magical Acts / Liminality and Communitas / Religion and Personal Experience. Fate in Relation to the Social Structure / Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience / Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance / The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination / What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order. The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process / Enactments of Meaning / Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change -- Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict. The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money / The Colonization of Consciousness / Religious Ethics and Politics in the State and the Transnational Scene. Civil Religion in America / "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China / Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo / Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains / Research Tools. Edward Burnett Tylor. Emile Durkheim. Max Weber. Clifford Geertz -- Ludwig Wittgenstein. W. E. H. Stanner. Malcolm Ruel. Talal Asad -- Susanne K. Langer. E. E. Evans-Pritchard. Sherry B. Ortner. Eric R. Wolf -- Bronislaw Malinowski. Marshall Sahlins. Mary Douglas. Claude Levi-Strauss. Alton L. Becker -- Paul Radin. Raymond C. Kelly. Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Alfred Gell. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- Godfrey Lienhardt. Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah. Victor Turner -- Meyer Fortes. Gananath Obeyesekere. Janice Boddy. Dennis Tedlock -- Maurice Bloch. Roy A. Rappaport -- Michael Taussig. John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- Robert N. Bellah. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang. Charles Hirschkind. Anne Vallely -- Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Pt. II. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Pt. III. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Pt. IV. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. Pt. V.
0631221123 9780631221128 0631221131 9780631221135
2001035008
Ethnology--Religious aspects
Religion.
BL256 / .R43 2002
306.6
Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-613) and index.
The Context of Understanding and Debate. Religion in Primitive Culture / The Elementary Forms of Religious Life / The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Religion as a Cultural System / Skeptical Rejoinders. Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough / Religion, Totemism and Symbolism / Christians as Believers / The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category / Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds. The Logic of Signs and Symbols / The Problem of Symbols / On Key Symbols / The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol / Structure, Function, and Interpretation. Myth in Primitive Psychology / Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture / Land Animals, Pure and Impure / A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo / Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre / Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder. The Winnebago Trickster Figure / Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief / The Politics and Poetics of Transgression / Conceptualizing the Cosmos. Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual / Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism / Praxis: Religious Action -- The Movement of Ritual: Emergence. The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action / Form and Meaning of Magical Acts / Liminality and Communitas / Religion and Personal Experience. Fate in Relation to the Social Structure / Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience / Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance / The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination / What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order. The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process / Enactments of Meaning / Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change -- Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict. The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money / The Colonization of Consciousness / Religious Ethics and Politics in the State and the Transnational Scene. Civil Religion in America / "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China / Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo / Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains / Research Tools. Edward Burnett Tylor. Emile Durkheim. Max Weber. Clifford Geertz -- Ludwig Wittgenstein. W. E. H. Stanner. Malcolm Ruel. Talal Asad -- Susanne K. Langer. E. E. Evans-Pritchard. Sherry B. Ortner. Eric R. Wolf -- Bronislaw Malinowski. Marshall Sahlins. Mary Douglas. Claude Levi-Strauss. Alton L. Becker -- Paul Radin. Raymond C. Kelly. Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Alfred Gell. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- Godfrey Lienhardt. Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah. Victor Turner -- Meyer Fortes. Gananath Obeyesekere. Janice Boddy. Dennis Tedlock -- Maurice Bloch. Roy A. Rappaport -- Michael Taussig. John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- Robert N. Bellah. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang. Charles Hirschkind. Anne Vallely -- Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Pt. II. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Pt. III. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Pt. IV. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. Pt. V.
0631221123 9780631221128 0631221131 9780631221135
2001035008
Ethnology--Religious aspects
Religion.
BL256 / .R43 2002
306.6