Ritual And Belief

Introduction
Chapter 1. Perspectives
Reading 1-1 Edward B. Tylor: Animism
Reading 1-2 Sigmund Freud: The Return Of Totenism In Childhood
Reading 1-3 Emile Durkheim: The Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life

Chapter 2. Myth, Cosmology, And Symbolic Classification
Reading 2-1 Claude Levi-Strauss: Harelips And Twins: The Splitting Of A Myth
Reading 2-2 Marcel Griaule And Germaine Dieterlen: The Dogon
Reading 2-3 Mary Douglas: Pollution

Chapter 3. Gods, Spirits, And Souls
Reading 3-1 Jack Goody: A Kernel Of Doubt
Reading 3-2 Lyle B. Steadman, Craig T. Palmer, And Christopher F. Tilley: The Universality Of Ancestor Worship
Reading 3-3 Pascal Boyer: What Makes Anthropomorphism Natural: Intuitive Ontology And Cultural Representations

Chapter 4. Ritual
Reading 4-1 Victor W. Turner: Ritual Symbolism, Morality, And Social Structure Among The Ndembu
Reading 4-2 Arnold Van Gennep: The Rites Of Passage: Conclusions
Reading 4-3 Heiko Henkel: “Between Belief And Unbelief Lies The Performance Of Salat”: Meaning And Efficacy Of A Muslim Ritual

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

Chapter 6. Body And Mind
Reading 6-1 Napolean 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

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 George Gmelch: Baseball Magic

Chapter 8. Death
Reading 8-1 Walter B. Cannon: “Voodoo” Death
Reading 8-2 Peter Metcalf And Richard Huntington: Symbolic Associations Of Death
Reading 8-3 David Hicks: Making The King Divine: A Case Study In Ritual Regicide From Timor

Chapter 9. Gender And Sexuality
Reading 9-1 Eric R. Wolf: The Virgin Of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol
Reading 9-2 Serena Nanda: The Hijras Of India: Cultural And Individual Dimensions Of An Institutionalized Third Gender Role
Reading 9-3 Stanislav Andreski: The Syphilitic Shock

Chapter 10. The Natural Environment
Reading 10-1 G. Reichel-Dolmatoff: Cosmology As Ecological Analysis: A V

Additional Info
Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft. The choice of readings is eclectic: no single anthropological approach or theoretical perspective dominates the text. Theoretical significance, scholarly eminence of the author, and inherent interest provide the principal criteria; and each reading complements its companion chapters, which are pedagogically coherent rather than ad hoc assemblages. Included among the theoretical perspectives are structural-functionalism, structuralism, Malinowskian functionalism, cultural materialism, and cultural evolutionism; also included are the synchronic and diachronic approaches. The book offers a mixture of classic readings and more recent contributions, and the “world religions” are included along with examples from the religions of traditionally non-literate cultures. As diverse a range of religious traditions as possible has been embraced, from various ethnic groups, traditions, and places.