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

Preface 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