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catalog abstract ""A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field. Updated in its second edition, this volume examines numerous aspects of religion in a diversity of cultures and expands upon the idea of what we mean by religion , linking it to some of the broader questions of culture and politics.It collects classic and contemporary articles from the major thinkers in both North American and British anthropology; emphasizes the ongoing conversation among anthropologists with respect to central questions of religious behavior; presents comprehensive coverage of theory and religious practice, through time and ethnographic regions, integrated by editorial commentary Includes additional classic pieces by Pouillon, Burridge, and Meyerhoff, as well as more contemporary work by Harding, De Boeck, and Palmie; and includes indexed bibliography arranged according to both ethnographic region and religious topics and practices"--Publisher description.".
catalog alternative "Anthropology of religion".
catalog contributor b11998849.
catalog created "2002.".
catalog date "2002".
catalog date "2002.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
catalog description ""A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field. Updated in its second edition, this volume examines numerous aspects of religion in a diversity of cultures and expands upon the idea of what we mean by religion , linking it to some of the broader questions of culture and politics.It collects classic and contemporary articles from the major thinkers in both North American and British anthropology; emphasizes the ongoing conversation among anthropologists with respect to central questions of religious behavior; presents comprehensive coverage of theory and religious practice, through time and ethnographic regions, integrated by editorial commentary Includes additional classic pieces by Pouillon, Burridge, and Meyerhoff, as well as more contemporary work by Harding, De Boeck, and Palmie; and includes indexed bibliography arranged according to both ethnographic region and religious topics and practices"--Publisher description.".
catalog description "Bronislaw Malinowski -- 14. Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture / Marshall Sahlins -- 15. Land Animals, Pure and Impure / Mary Douglas -- 16. Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo / Claude Levi-Strauss -- 17. Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre / Alton L. Becker -- Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder -- 18. Winnebago Trickster Figure / Paul Radin -- 19. Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief / Raymond C. Kelly -- 20. Politics and Poetics of Transgression / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Conceptualizing the Cosmos -- 21. Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual / Alfred Gell -- 22. Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- Pt. III. Praxis: Religious Action -- Movement of Ritual: Emergence -- 23.".
catalog description "Control of Experience: Symbolic Action / Godfrey Lienhardt -- 24. Form and Meaning of Magical Acts / Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah -- 25. Liminality and Communitas / Victor Turner -- Religion and Personal Experience -- 26. Fate in Relation to the Social Structure / Meyer Fortes -- 27. Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience / Gananath Obeyesekere -- 28. Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance / Janice Boddy -- 29. Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination / Dennis Tedlock -- What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order -- 30. Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process / Maurice Bloch -- 31. Enactments of Meaning / Roy A. Rappaport -- Pt. IV. Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change -- Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict -- 32. Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money /".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [585]-613) and index.".
catalog description "Michael Taussig -- 33. Colonization of Consciousness / John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- Religious Ethics and Politics in the State and the Transnational Scene -- 34. Civil Religion in America / Robert N. Bellah -- 35. "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang -- 36. Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo / Charles Hirschkind -- 37. Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains / Anne Vallely -- Pt. V. Research Tools.".
catalog description "Pt. I. Context of Understanding and Debate -- 1. Religion in Primitive Culture / Edward Burnett Tylor -- 2. Elementary Forms of Religious Life / Emile Durkheim -- 3. Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Max Weber -- 4. Religion as a Cultural System / Clifford Geertz -- Skeptical Rejoinders -- 5. Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- 6. Religion, Totemism and Symbolism / W. E. H. Stanner -- 7. Christians as Believers / Malcolm Ruel -- 8. Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category / Talal Asad -- Pt. II. Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds -- 9. Logic of Signs and Symbols / Susanne K. Langer -- 10. Problem of Symbols / E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- 11. On Key Symbols / Sherry B. Ortner -- 12. Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol / Eric R. Wolf -- Structure, Function, and Interpretation -- 13. Myth in Primitive Psychology /".
catalog extent "x, 620 p. :".
catalog identifier "0631221123 (alk. paper)".
catalog identifier "0631221131 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
catalog isPartOf "Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 2".
catalog issued "2002".
catalog issued "2002.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers,".
catalog subject "306.6 21".
catalog subject "BL256 .R43 2002".
catalog subject "Ethnology Religious aspects.".
catalog subject "Religion.".
catalog tableOfContents "Bronislaw Malinowski -- 14. Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture / Marshall Sahlins -- 15. Land Animals, Pure and Impure / Mary Douglas -- 16. Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo / Claude Levi-Strauss -- 17. Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre / Alton L. Becker -- Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder -- 18. Winnebago Trickster Figure / Paul Radin -- 19. Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief / Raymond C. Kelly -- 20. Politics and Poetics of Transgression / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- Conceptualizing the Cosmos -- 21. Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual / Alfred Gell -- 22. Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- Pt. III. Praxis: Religious Action -- Movement of Ritual: Emergence -- 23.".
catalog tableOfContents "Control of Experience: Symbolic Action / Godfrey Lienhardt -- 24. Form and Meaning of Magical Acts / Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah -- 25. Liminality and Communitas / Victor Turner -- Religion and Personal Experience -- 26. Fate in Relation to the Social Structure / Meyer Fortes -- 27. Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience / Gananath Obeyesekere -- 28. Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance / Janice Boddy -- 29. Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination / Dennis Tedlock -- What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order -- 30. Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process / Maurice Bloch -- 31. Enactments of Meaning / Roy A. Rappaport -- Pt. IV. Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change -- Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict -- 32. Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money /".
catalog tableOfContents "Michael Taussig -- 33. Colonization of Consciousness / John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- Religious Ethics and Politics in the State and the Transnational Scene -- 34. Civil Religion in America / Robert N. Bellah -- 35. "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang -- 36. Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo / Charles Hirschkind -- 37. Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains / Anne Vallely -- Pt. V. Research Tools.".
catalog tableOfContents "Pt. I. Context of Understanding and Debate -- 1. Religion in Primitive Culture / Edward Burnett Tylor -- 2. Elementary Forms of Religious Life / Emile Durkheim -- 3. Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Max Weber -- 4. Religion as a Cultural System / Clifford Geertz -- Skeptical Rejoinders -- 5. Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- 6. Religion, Totemism and Symbolism / W. E. H. Stanner -- 7. Christians as Believers / Malcolm Ruel -- 8. Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category / Talal Asad -- Pt. II. Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds -- 9. Logic of Signs and Symbols / Susanne K. Langer -- 10. Problem of Symbols / E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- 11. On Key Symbols / Sherry B. Ortner -- 12. Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol / Eric R. Wolf -- Structure, Function, and Interpretation -- 13. Myth in Primitive Psychology /".
catalog title "A reader in the anthropology of religion / edited by Michael Lambek.".
catalog title "Anthropology of religion".
catalog type "text".