| Titre : | 
					Reader in comparative religion : an anthropological approach | 
				 
					| Type de document :  | 
					texte imprimé | 
				 
					| Auteurs :  | 
					Lessa, William Armand, Auteur ; Vogt, Evon Z. (Evon Zartman) (1918-2004), Auteur | 
				 
					| Editeur : | 
					New York : Harper and Row | 
				 
					| Année de publication :  | 
					©1972 | 
				 
					| Importance :  | 
					xii, 572 p. | 
				 
					| Présentation :  | 
					illustrations, charts, plan | 
				 
					| Format :  | 
					25 cm | 
				 
					| ISBN/ISSN/EAN :  | 
					978-0-06-043992-7 | 
				 
					| Langues : | 
					Anglais (eng) | 
				 
					| Catégories :  | 
					Anthropology Religions.
  | 
				 
					| Note de contenu :  | 
					 	1. The origin and development of religion: -- 
Animism / Tylor -- 
The nature, attributes, and worship of the primitive high god / Schmidt -- 
The formation of monotheism / Pettazzoni -- 
Sacrifice among the Semites / Smith -- 
Totem and taboo : an ethnologic psychoanalysis / Kroeber -- 
Totem and taboo in retrospect / Kroeber -- 
The elementary forms of the religious life / Durkheim -- 
Religion and society : a critique of Émile Durkheim's theory of the origin and nature of religion / Goldenweiser -- 
Religious evolution / Bellah -- 
2. The function of religion in human society: -- 
The ancient city / Fustel de Coulanges -- 
The role of magic and religion / Malinowski -- 
Taboo / Radcliffe-Brown -- 
Anxiety and ritual : the theories of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown / Homans -- 
Religious perspectives in sociology and social psychology / Parsons -- 
Religion in human life / Lowie -- 
3. Myth and ritual: -- 
Myths and rituals : a general theory / Kluckhohn -- 
The dreaming / Stanner -- 
A Gilbertese creation myth / Grimble -- 
The Zuni Shalako ceremony / Wilson -- 
The decreasing power of myth on Ulithi / Lessa -- 
Offering and sacrifice : problems of organization / Firth -- 
The vision quest among the North American Indians / Lowie -- 
Obsessive acts and religious practices / Freud -- 
4. Symbolism: -- 
Religion as a cultural system / Geertz -- 
An American sacred ceremony / Warner -- 
The virgin of Guadalupe : a Mexican national symbol / Wolf -- 
Symbolic wounds / Bettelheim -- 
Two essays concerning the symbolic representation of time / Leach -- 
Freud and football / Childe Herald -- 
5. Mana and taboo: -- 
Mana / Codrington -- 
Mana in Polynesia / Handy -- 
The tabu / Ellis -- 
Taboo as a possible factor involved in the obsolescence of Navaho pottery and basketry / Tschopik -- 
6. Totemism: -- 
Totemism / Goldenweiser -- 
Australian totemism / Elkin -- 
Totemism and the A.E.F. / Linton -- 
The bear and the barber / Lévi-Strauss -- 
7. Magic, witchcraft, and divination: -- 
Sympathetic magic / Frazer -- 
A fresh approach to the problem of magic and religion / Titiev -- 
The two sorcerers / Grey -- 
"Voodoo" death / Cannon -- 
Witchcraft explains unfortunate events / Evans-Pritchard -- 
A typical case of witchcraft in old England / Kittredge -- 
Divining by familiar spirits among the Amazulu / Callaway -- 
Consulting the poison oracle among the Azande / Evans-Pritchard -- 
Somatomancy : precursor of the science of human constitution / Lessa -- 
Water witching : an interpretation of a ritual pattern in a rural American community / Vogt -- 
Divination : a new perspective / Moore -- 
Divination and its social contexts / Park -- 
8. The magical treatment of illness: -- 
Problems of primitive medicine / Ackerknecht -- 
Magical fright / Gillin -- 
An Eskimo shaman purifies a sick person / Rasmussen -- 
Body ritual among the Nacirema / Miner -- 
9. Death, ghosts, and ancestor worship: -- 
An interpretation of ambivalence of two American Indian tribes / Opler -- 
Ghosts, Ifaluk, and teleological functionalism / Spiro -- 
Ancestral spirits and social structure among the Plateau Tonga / Colson -- 
The nature of Katcinas / Bunzel -- 
The development of ancestral images in China / Laufer -- 
10. Shamans and priests: -- 
Shamans and priests among the Plains Indians / Lowie -- 
Shamanistic performance in the inner room / Bogoras -- 
A shaman's journey to the sea spirit / Rasmussen -- 
A study of shamanism in the Nuba Mountains / Nadel -- 
Aztec sacrifice / Sahagún -- 
A Maya priest in action / Thompson -- 
11. Dynamics in religion: -- 
Interrelationships between religion and nature in the ancient Near East / Frankfort and Frankfort -- 
Pesach : its origins / Schauss -- 
Nativistic movements / Linton -- 
Acculturation and Messianic movements / Barber -- 
The Navaho Indians and the Ghost Dance of 1890 / Hill -- 
The Peyote way / Slotkin -- 
The significance of modern cults in Melanesian development / Belshaw -- 
Pursuit of the millennium : the relation between religious and social change / Talmon -- 
A note on relative deprivation theory as applied to millenarian and other cult movements / Aberle -- 
African gods and Catholic saints in New World religious belief / Herskovits -- 
Ritual and social change : a Javanese example / Geertz -- 
12. New methods of analysis: -- 
The structural study of myth / Lévi-Strauss -- 
Lévi-Strauss in the Garden of Eden : an examination of some recent developments in the analysis of myth / Leach -- 
A structural description of Subanun "religious behavior" / Frake -- 
Tenejapa medicine I : the curer / Metzger and Williams -- 
Structural and conceptual replication in Zinacantan culture / Vogt -- 
The absent father and cross-sex identity / Burton and Whiting -- 
The function of male initiation ceremonies : a cross-cultural test of an alternative hypothesis (with comment by John W.M. Whiting and rejoinder by Frank W. Young) / Young. | 
				  
 
					Reader in comparative religion : an anthropological approach [texte imprimé] /  Lessa, William Armand, Auteur ;  Vogt, Evon Z. (Evon Zartman) (1918-2004), Auteur . -  New York : Harper and Row, ©1972 . - xii, 572 p. : illustrations, charts, plan ; 25 cm. ISBN : 978-0-06-043992-7 Langues : Anglais ( eng) 
					| Catégories :  | 
					Anthropology Religions.
  | 
				 
					| Note de contenu :  | 
					 	1. The origin and development of religion: -- 
Animism / Tylor -- 
The nature, attributes, and worship of the primitive high god / Schmidt -- 
The formation of monotheism / Pettazzoni -- 
Sacrifice among the Semites / Smith -- 
Totem and taboo : an ethnologic psychoanalysis / Kroeber -- 
Totem and taboo in retrospect / Kroeber -- 
The elementary forms of the religious life / Durkheim -- 
Religion and society : a critique of Émile Durkheim's theory of the origin and nature of religion / Goldenweiser -- 
Religious evolution / Bellah -- 
2. The function of religion in human society: -- 
The ancient city / Fustel de Coulanges -- 
The role of magic and religion / Malinowski -- 
Taboo / Radcliffe-Brown -- 
Anxiety and ritual : the theories of Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown / Homans -- 
Religious perspectives in sociology and social psychology / Parsons -- 
Religion in human life / Lowie -- 
3. Myth and ritual: -- 
Myths and rituals : a general theory / Kluckhohn -- 
The dreaming / Stanner -- 
A Gilbertese creation myth / Grimble -- 
The Zuni Shalako ceremony / Wilson -- 
The decreasing power of myth on Ulithi / Lessa -- 
Offering and sacrifice : problems of organization / Firth -- 
The vision quest among the North American Indians / Lowie -- 
Obsessive acts and religious practices / Freud -- 
4. Symbolism: -- 
Religion as a cultural system / Geertz -- 
An American sacred ceremony / Warner -- 
The virgin of Guadalupe : a Mexican national symbol / Wolf -- 
Symbolic wounds / Bettelheim -- 
Two essays concerning the symbolic representation of time / Leach -- 
Freud and football / Childe Herald -- 
5. Mana and taboo: -- 
Mana / Codrington -- 
Mana in Polynesia / Handy -- 
The tabu / Ellis -- 
Taboo as a possible factor involved in the obsolescence of Navaho pottery and basketry / Tschopik -- 
6. Totemism: -- 
Totemism / Goldenweiser -- 
Australian totemism / Elkin -- 
Totemism and the A.E.F. / Linton -- 
The bear and the barber / Lévi-Strauss -- 
7. Magic, witchcraft, and divination: -- 
Sympathetic magic / Frazer -- 
A fresh approach to the problem of magic and religion / Titiev -- 
The two sorcerers / Grey -- 
"Voodoo" death / Cannon -- 
Witchcraft explains unfortunate events / Evans-Pritchard -- 
A typical case of witchcraft in old England / Kittredge -- 
Divining by familiar spirits among the Amazulu / Callaway -- 
Consulting the poison oracle among the Azande / Evans-Pritchard -- 
Somatomancy : precursor of the science of human constitution / Lessa -- 
Water witching : an interpretation of a ritual pattern in a rural American community / Vogt -- 
Divination : a new perspective / Moore -- 
Divination and its social contexts / Park -- 
8. The magical treatment of illness: -- 
Problems of primitive medicine / Ackerknecht -- 
Magical fright / Gillin -- 
An Eskimo shaman purifies a sick person / Rasmussen -- 
Body ritual among the Nacirema / Miner -- 
9. Death, ghosts, and ancestor worship: -- 
An interpretation of ambivalence of two American Indian tribes / Opler -- 
Ghosts, Ifaluk, and teleological functionalism / Spiro -- 
Ancestral spirits and social structure among the Plateau Tonga / Colson -- 
The nature of Katcinas / Bunzel -- 
The development of ancestral images in China / Laufer -- 
10. Shamans and priests: -- 
Shamans and priests among the Plains Indians / Lowie -- 
Shamanistic performance in the inner room / Bogoras -- 
A shaman's journey to the sea spirit / Rasmussen -- 
A study of shamanism in the Nuba Mountains / Nadel -- 
Aztec sacrifice / Sahagún -- 
A Maya priest in action / Thompson -- 
11. Dynamics in religion: -- 
Interrelationships between religion and nature in the ancient Near East / Frankfort and Frankfort -- 
Pesach : its origins / Schauss -- 
Nativistic movements / Linton -- 
Acculturation and Messianic movements / Barber -- 
The Navaho Indians and the Ghost Dance of 1890 / Hill -- 
The Peyote way / Slotkin -- 
The significance of modern cults in Melanesian development / Belshaw -- 
Pursuit of the millennium : the relation between religious and social change / Talmon -- 
A note on relative deprivation theory as applied to millenarian and other cult movements / Aberle -- 
African gods and Catholic saints in New World religious belief / Herskovits -- 
Ritual and social change : a Javanese example / Geertz -- 
12. New methods of analysis: -- 
The structural study of myth / Lévi-Strauss -- 
Lévi-Strauss in the Garden of Eden : an examination of some recent developments in the analysis of myth / Leach -- 
A structural description of Subanun "religious behavior" / Frake -- 
Tenejapa medicine I : the curer / Metzger and Williams -- 
Structural and conceptual replication in Zinacantan culture / Vogt -- 
The absent father and cross-sex identity / Burton and Whiting -- 
The function of male initiation ceremonies : a cross-cultural test of an alternative hypothesis (with comment by John W.M. Whiting and rejoinder by Frank W. Young) / Young. | 
				 
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