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ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION
This book describes how anthropologists in the twentieth century went about documenting the religions of those independent peoples who still lived beyond the frontiers of the global economy and the world religions. It begins by examining the enormous popularity of the newly invented field of anthropology in the nineteenth century as a site of multiple intellectual developments. Its climax was Frazer's Golden Bough, which is a pillar of modernity second only to Darwin's Origin of Species. But its notion of religion was entirely speculative. When anthropologists went to see for themselves, they encountered formidable obstacles. How to access a people's most profound understandings of the world and everything in it? Holding fast to the premise that ethnographers have no special powers of seeing inside other people's brains, this book teaches students to proceed slowly, a step at a time, watching how people perform rituals great and small, asking questions that seem stupid to their hosts, and struggling to translate abstract terms in unrecorded languages. Using a handful of examples from different continents, the book shows the potential of an anthropological approach to religion.
Madagascar: A Short History
In: Cambridge review of international affairs, Volume 22, Issue 4, p. 688-690
ISSN: 0955-7571
The forest, source of life: the Kelabit of Sarawak – Monica Janowski
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 483-483
ISSN: 1467-9655
For the Sake of Our Future: Sacrificing in Eastern Indonesia
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 100, Issue 1, p. 206-207
ISSN: 1548-1433
For tfie Sake of Our Future: Sacrificing in Eastern Indonesia. Signe Howell. ed. Leiden, Netherlands: Leiden University, 1996. 398 pp.
Stakeholding versus corporatism
In: Renewal: politics, movements, ideas ; a journal of social democracy, Volume 4, Issue 4, p. 75-78
ISSN: 0968-252X
Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Death Rituals of Rural Greece, Loring M. Danforth
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 88, Issue 1, p. 208-208
ISSN: 1548-1433
Meaning and Materialism: The Ritual Economy of Death
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 16, Issue 4, p. 563
Where Are You/Spirits? Style and Theme in Berawan Prayer
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 26, Issue 2, p. 369
On the Meaning of Death: Essays on Mortuary Rituals and Eschatological Beliefs
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 25, Issue 4, p. 726
The Dark Side of Humanity: The Work of Robert Hertz and Its Legacy
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 151
ISSN: 1467-9655