Anthropology of Religion

Tylor, E.B. ''Animinism'' Ritual and Belief . Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Frazer, James G. "Magic and Religion," Ritual and Belief. Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 2nd ed. AltaMira Press 2002

Freud, Sigmund ''The Return of Totemism in Childhood'' Ritual and Belief. Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Durkheim, Emile ''The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life'' Ritual and Belief. Ed. David Hicks, McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd edition. AltaMira Press, 2010

Frazer, James G. ''Sympathetic Magic'' Ritual and Belief. Ed. David Hicks, McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010. (This reading is in section 7)

Greenwood, Susan. "The Owl, the Dragon and the Magician: Reflections on Being an Anthropologist Studying Magic." The Pomegranate, 17:1-2, 2015, pp. 141-154

Griaule, Marcel and Dieterlen, Germaine "The Dogon" Ritual and Belief. Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Philen, Robert C. “Reflections on Meaning and Myth. Claude Lévi-Strauss Revisited.” Anthropos, 100:1, 2005, pp. 221–228. www.jstor.org/stable/40466483

Leach, Edmund ''Genesis as Myth'' Ritual and Belief. Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 2nd ed.. AltaMira Press, 2010

Steadman, Lyle B. Palmer Craig T. and Tilley Christopher F. "The Universality of Ancestor Worship," Ritual and Belief. Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Archer, Leonie, J. ''In Thy Blood Live: Gender and Ritual in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition'' Ritual and Belief, Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Douglas, Mary "Pollution", Ritual and Belief. Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo. "Cosmology as Ecological Analysis: A view from the Rain Forest" Ritual and Belief. Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd edition, 2010

Turner, Victor "Ritual Symbolism, Morality, and Social Structure among the Ndembu" Ritual and Belief, Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Geertz, Clifford, "Religion as a Cultural System'', In: The interpretation of cultures: selected essays, Geertz, Clifford, pp.87-125. Fontana Press, 1993

Henkel, Heiko, ''Between Belief and Unbelief Lies the Performance of Salāt'' Ritual and Belief, Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Edmund R. Leach, "Ritual" Ritual and Belief, Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 2nd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010. Powers, William K. "The Sweat Lodge: Inside," Ritual and Belief Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 2nd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Choose 1 reading from each section: i) Shamanism: Turner, Victor "Religious Specialists" Ritual and Belief, Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010. Wolf, Margery. ''The Woman Who Didn't Become a Shaman'' Ritual and Belief, Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010. Harner, Michael J. ''The Sound of Rushing Water'' Ritual and Belief, Ed. David Hicks. McGraw- Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

ii) On Magic and Modernity: Gmelch, George. J. ''Baseball Magic''Ritual and Belief. Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Geschiere, Peter. ''On Witch Doctors and Spin Doctors: The Role of 'Experts' in African and American Politics' In, Meyer and Pels Eds,Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Taussig, M. ''To Become a Healer'' in Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man. Chicago Press,

Verrips, Jojada. ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Modern Medicine Between Magic and Science'' In, Meyer and Pels Eds,Magic and Modernity: Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003

E.E. Evans-Pritchard, "Men Bewitch Others When They Hate Them", Ritual and Belief. Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd edition, 2010

E.E. Evans-Pritchard, "The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate", in Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic amongst the Azande, Oxford University Press, 1937

Rodney Needham, "Synthetic Images" Ritual and Belief. Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 2nd edition. 2002

Andreski, Stanislaw. ''Syphilitic Shock'' Ritual and Belief, Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Nanda, Serena ''The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role'' Ritual and Belief, Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Sanday, Peggy Reeves ''Epilogue'' Ritual and Belief, Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 2nd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Wolf, Eric R. ''The Virgin of Guadelupe: A Mexican National Symbol'' Ritual and Belief, Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Stone, Merlin. When God Was a Woman. 1st Harvest/HBJ ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978

Read ''Introduction'' and any of the following: 'Enchantment, Inc. Online Gaming Between Spiritual Experience and Commodity Fetishism' or 'From Stone to Flesh: The Case of the Buddha' in Houtman, Dick, and Birgit Meyer. Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012

Read ''Introduction'', and ''Religious Actors'' or ''Religion, Ritual and Performance'': Gharavi, Lance, Religion, Theatre, and Performance: Acts of Faith. New York: Routledge, 2012

Read first two chapters: Sautter, Cia. The Performance of Religion : Seeing the Sacred In the Theatre. New York: Routledge, 2017

Schieffelin, Edward, L. ''Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality'' in Korom. F. eds The Anthropology of Performance, Wiley-Blackwell 2013. pp 124-133

Schechner, R. Performance Studies: an Introduction New York: Routledge, 2002

Kingsbury, Kate. ''Modern Mouride Marabouts and their Young Disciples in Dakar''. Forthcoming

Cannon, Walter, B. ''Voodoo Death'' Ritual and Belief, Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

Metcalf, Peter and Huntington, Richard. ''Symbolic Associations of Death'' Ed. David Hicks. McGraw-Hill: New York, 3rd ed. AltaMira Press, 2010

David Hicks, editor, Ritual and belief: readings in the anthropology of religion. (Third edition)

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