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Ritual and Memory - Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R1,681
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Ritual and Memory - Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion (Paperback, New): Harvey Whitehouse, James Laidlaw

Ritual and Memory - Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion (Paperback, New)

Harvey Whitehouse, James Laidlaw; Contributions by J. D. Y Peel, David Shankland, Maurice Bloch, Brian Malley, Susan Bayly, Leo Howe, Gilbert Lewis (St. John's College, Cambridge

Series: Cognitive Science of Religion

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Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically with Harvey Whitehouse's theory of two divergent modes of religiosity. Although these contributors differ in their methods, their areas of fieldwork, and their predisposition towards Whitehouse's cognitively-based approach, they all help evaluate and refine Whitehouse's theory and so contribute to a new comparative approach in the anthropology of religion.

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Imprint: AltaMira Press,U.S.
Country of origin: United States
Series: Cognitive Science of Religion
Release date: July 2004
First published: July 2004
Editors: Harvey Whitehouse • James Laidlaw
Contributors: J. D. Y Peel • David Shankland • Maurice Bloch • Brian Malley • Susan Bayly • Leo Howe • Gilbert Lewis (St. John's College • Cambridge
Dimensions: 220 x 244 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 230
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0617-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General
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LSN: 0-7591-0617-7
Barcode: 9780759106178

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