Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural, Seventh Edition

Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural, Seventh Edition

BookMagic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural
EditorPamela A. Moro, James E. Myers, Arthur C. Lehmann
PublisherMcGraw-Hill
ImprintMcGraw-Hill Higher Education
Media GroupThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Copyright HolderThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
ContributorClifford Geertz, Marvin Harris, Dorothy Lee, Stephen Jay Gould, Robert S. Root-Bernstein, Claude E. Stipe, Scott Leonard, Michael McClure (2), John Beattie, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Raymond Firth, Mary Douglas, Mary Lee Daugherty, Victor W. Turner, Daniel Gordon, Barbara G. Myerhoff, Roy A. Rappaport, Elizabeth G. Harrison, Horace Miner, William Howells, Michael Fobes Brown, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, Michael Barkun, Mike Kiyaani, Thomas J. Csordas, Peter T. Furst, Michael D. Coe, Michael Harner, Robert S. de Ropp, Arthur C. Lehmann, Robert Bergman, William Wedenoja, L. A. Rebhun, Edward C. Halperin, MD, James L. Brain, Naomi M. McPherson, T. M. Luhrmann, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Bronislaw Malinowski, George Gmelch, William E. Mitchell, Paul Barber, Karen McCarthy Brown, Peter A. Metcalf, Stanley Brandes, C. Allen Haney, Christina Leimer, Juliann Lowery, Melvyn C. Goldstein, James Steel Thayer, Anthony F. C. Wallace, Alice Beck Kehoe, Peter M. Worsley, William F. Lewis, William Jankowiak, Emilie Allen, John Whitmore, Homa Hoodfar, Steve Brouwer, Paul Gifford, Susan D. Rose, Mark Juergensmeyer, Stephen D. O'Leary, Lisle Dalton, Eric Michael Mazur, Monica Siems
About/SubjectReligion, Occultism, Witchcraft, Shamanism
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationBoston; Burr Ridge, IL; Dubuque, IA; Madison, WI; New York; San Francisco; St. Louis; Bangkok; Bogotá; Caracas; Kuala Lumpur; Lisbon; London; Madrid; Mexico City; Milan; Montreal; New Delhi; Santiago; Seoul; Singapore; Sydney; Taipei; Toronto
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Pages / Font556 pages
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ISBN 13978-0-07-340521-6
OtherMHID: 0-07-340521-3
Barcode (EAN)9780073405216
EAN 590000
ChaptersPreface 1 THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF RELIGION 1 Clifford Geertz - Religion 2 Marvin Harris - Why We Became Religious and The Evolution of the Spirit World 3 Dorothy Lee - Religious Perspectives in Anthropology 4 Stephen Jay Gould - Non-Overlapping Magisteria 5 Robert S. Root-Bernstein - Darwin's Rib 6 Claude E. Stipe - Anthropologists Versus Missionaries: The Influence of Presuppositions 2 MYTH, SYMBOLISM, AND TABOO 7 Scott Leonard and Michael McClure - The Study of Mythology 8 John Beattie - Nyoro Myth 9 Claude Lévi-Strauss - Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth 10 Raymond Firth - An Anthropologist's Reflections on Symbolic Usage 11 Mary Douglas - Taboo 12 Mary Lee Daugherty - Serpent-Handling as Sacrament 3 RITUAL 13 Victor W. Turner - Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites of Passage 14 Daniel Gordon - Female Circumcision in Egypt and Sudan: A Controversial Rite of Passage 15 Barbara G. Myerhoff - Return to Wirikuta: Ritual Reversal and Symbolic Continuity on the Peyote Hunt of the Huichol Indians 16 Roy A. Rappaport - Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People 17 Elizabeth G. Harrison - I Can Only Move My Feet Towards mizuko kuyō: Memorial Services for Dead Children in Japan 18 Horace Miner - Body Ritual Among the Nacirema 4 SHAMANS, PRIESTS, AND PROPHETS 19 Victor W. Turner - Religious Specialists 20 William Howells - The Shaman: A Siberian Spiritualist 21 Michael Fobes Brown - Dark Side of the Shaman 22 Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff - Training for the Priesthood Among the Kogi of Colombia 23 Michael Barkun - Reflections After Waco: Millennialists and the State 5 THE RELIGIOUS USE OF DRUGS 24 Mike Kiyaani and Thomas J. Csordas - On the Peyote Road 25 Peter T. Furst and Michael D. Coe - Ritual Enemas 26 Michael Harner - The Sound of Rushing Water 27 Robert S. de Ropp - Psychedelic Drugs and Religious Experience 6 ETHNOMEDICINE: RELIGION AND HEALING 28 Arthur C. Lehmann - Eyes of the Ngangas: Ethnomedicine and Power in Central African Republic 29 Robert Bergman - A School for Medicine Men 30 William Wedenoja - Mothering and the Practice of "Balm" in Jamaica 31 L. A. Rebhun - Swallowing Frogs: Anger and Illness in Northeast Brazil 32 Edward C. Halperin, MD - Should Academic Medical Centers Conduct Clinical Trials of the Efficacy of Intercessory Prayer? 7 WITCHCRAFT, SORCERY, DIVINATION, AND MAGIC 33 James L. Brain - An Anthropological Perspective on the Witchcraze 34 Naomi M. McPherson - Sorcery and Concepts of Deviance Among the Kabana, West New Britain 35 T. M. Luhrmann - The Goat and the Gazelle: Witchcraft 36 E. E. Evans-Pritchard - Consulting the Poison Oracle Among the Azande 37 Bronislaw Malinowski - Rational Mastery by Man of His Surroundings 38 George Gmelch - Baseball Magic 8 GHOSTS, SOULS, AND ANCESTORS: POWER OF THE DEAD 39 William E. Mitchell - A New Weapon Stirs Up Old Ghosts 40 Paul Barber - The Real Vampire 41 Karen McCarthy Brown - Vodou 42 Peter A. Metcalf - Death Be Not Strange 43 Stanley Brandes - The Cremated Catholic: The Ends of Deceased Guatemalan 44 C. Allen Haney, Christina Leimer, and Juliann Lowery - Spontaneous Memorialization: Violent Death and Emerging Mourning Ritual 9 OLD AND NEW RELIGIONS: THE CHANGING SPIRITUAL LANDSCAPE 45 Melvyn C. Goldstein - The Revival of Monastic Life in Drepung Monastery 46 James Steel Thayer - Pilgrimage and Its Influence on West African Islam 47 Anthony F. C. Wallace - Revitalization Movements 48 Alice Beck Kehoe - The Ghost Dance Religions 49 Peter M. Worsley - Cargo Cults 50 William F. Lewis - Urban Rastas in Kingston, Jamaica 51 William Jankowiak and Emilie Allen - Adoring the Father: Religion and Charisma in an American Polygamous Community 52 John Whitmore - Religious Dimensions of the UFO Abductee Experience 10 RELIGION AS GLOBAL CULTURE: MIGRATION, MEDIA, AND OTHER TRANSNATIONAL FORCES 53 Homa Hoodfar - The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women 54 Steve Brouwer, Paul Gifford, and Susan D. Rose - South Korea: Modernization with a Vengeance, Evangelization with the Modern Edge 55 Mark Juergensmeyer - The Global Rise of Religious Nationalism 56 Stephen D. O'Leary - Cyberspace as Sacred Space: Communicating Religion on Computer Networks 57 Lisle Dalton, Eric Michael Mazur, and Monica Siems - Homer the Heretic and Charlie Church: Parody, Piety, and Pluralism in The Simpsons Glossary Bibliography Index
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