TY - BOOK AU - Lessa,William A. AU - Vogt,Evon Z. TI - Reader in comparative religion: an anthropological approach U1 - WJ291 PY - 1958/// CY - Illinois PB - Row, Peterson KW - Religión KW - Orígenes KW - Ensayos KW - Religión y mitología N1 - 1. The origin and development of religion -- Animism / Tylor -- Totem and taboo: an ethnologic psychoanalysis ; Totem and taboo in retrospect / Kroeber -- The elementary forms of the religious life / Durkheim -- 2. The function of religion in human society -- 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 -- Myths and rituals: a general theory / Kluckhohn -- Religion as a cultural system / Geertz -- 3. The interpretation of symbolism -- On key symbols / Ortner -- Social hair / Hallpike -- The deer-maize-peyote symbol complex among the Huichol Indians of Mexico / Myerhoff -- The Virgin of Guadalupe: a Mexican national symbol / Wolf. Temporal and spatial equivalents in Chamula ritual symbolism / Gossen -- Man the hunter and woman: metaphors for the sexes in Ilongot magical spells / Rosaldo and Atkinson -- The bear and the barber / Levi-Strauss -- The abominations of Leviticus / Douglas -- Anthropological aspects of language: animal categories and verbal abuse / Leach -- 4. The analysis of myth -- The apotheosis of Marespa / Lessa -- Earth-diver: creation of the Mythopoeic male / Dundes -- The structural study of myth / Levi-Strauss -- The head and the loins: Levi-Strauss and beyond / Willis -- Chamula genres of verbal behavior / Gossen -- 5. The symbolic analysis of ritual -- Two essays concerning the symbolic representation of time ; Ritualization in man in relation to conceptual and social development / Leach -- Betwixt and between: the liminal period in rites de passage / Turner -- Ritual man in Africa / Horton. Ritual, sanctity, and cybernetics / Rappaport -- Metaphors of hierarchy in a Mayan ritual / Rosaldo -- Levi-Strauss among the Maya / Vogt and Vogt -- The vision quest among the North American Indians / Lowie -- The Zuni Shalako ceremony / Wilson -- The Peyote Way / Slotkin -- 6. The purposes of shamanism -- Shamanistic performance in the inner room / Bogoras -- A shaman's journey to the Sea Spirit / Rasmussen -- Percussion and transition / Needham -- The effectiveness of symbols -- Aspects of cognition in Zinacanteco shamans: experimental results / Shweder -- 7. Interpretations of magic, witchcraft, and divination -- A fresh approach to the problem of magic and religion / Titiev -- Sympathetic magic / Frazer -- The form and meaning of magical acts: a point of view / Tambiah -- Witchcraft explains unfortunate events / Evans-Pritchard -- "Voodoo" death / Cannon -- Divination as a phase in a social process -- Divination -- a new perspective / Moore. 8. The meaning of ghosts and ancestor worship -- An interpretation of ambivalence of two American Indian tribes / Opler -- Ancestors as elders in Africa -- further thoughts / Brain -- Ritual aspects of Chinese kinship / Freedman -- The nature of Katcinas / Bunzel -- 9. Dynamics in religion -- Nativistic movements / Linton -- Revitalization movements / Wallace -- The Navaho Indians and the Ghost Dance of 1890 / Hill -- Big men and cargo cults / Cochrane -- Millenarianism / Hobsbawm -- "Internal conversion" in contemporary Bali / Geertz; Para uso exclusivo en Sala de Fondos Especiales, Requiere autorización para reproducción; Reglamento de la Sala de Fondos Especiales; Disponible en la colección Wigberto Jiménez Moreno ER -