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

Foreword by James W. FernandezPreface 1. The Anthropological Study of Religion * Clifford Geertz, “Religion” Marvin Harris, “Why We Became Religious” and “The Evolution of the Spirit World” Dorothy Lee, “Religious Perspectives in Anthropology” Lauriston Sharp, “Steel Axes for Stone-Age Australians” 2. Myth, Ritual, Symbolism, and Taboo * Edmund R. Leach, “Genesis as Myth” * Victor W. Turner, “Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage” Daniel Gordon, “Female Circumcision in Egypt and Sudan: A Controversial Rite of Passage” Raymond Firth, “An Anthropologist's Reflections on Symbolic Usage” Mary Douglas, “Taboo” Jill Dubisch, “You Are What You Eat: Religious Aspects of the Health Food Movement” Horace Miner, “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” 3. Shamans, Priests, and Prophets Victor W. Turner, “Religious Specialists” C. Von Furer-Haimendorf, “Priests” William Howells, “The Shaman: A Siberian Spiritualist” Michael Fobes Brown, “Dark Side of the Shaman” (and more...)