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Author : Robert Francis Murphy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mundurucú Religion written by Robert Francis Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilhelm Dupré
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110870053
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Religion in Primitive Cultures written by Wilhelm Dupré and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Author : Jeffery M. Paige
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520311736
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Reproductive Ritual written by Jeffery M. Paige and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A welcome addition. They argue that rituals of reproduction in preindustrial societies are essentially political. In these societies, they say, men need to control the reproductive power of women in order to establish political power; where there is no law or central government, ritual is used as a way of gaining control. The type of ritual will vary, they conclude, according to the economic base of the society. . . .for those whoa re interested in the subject, this book is indispensable. Its thesis is challenging and the documentation is excellent. Paige and Paige have mad ean essential contribution to a long debate, and their theory is sure to stir new and lively controversy." --Science Digest This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Author : Robert Francis Murphy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Money Income of Families and Persons in the United States, 1979 written by Robert Francis Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William H. Durham
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804721561
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Coevolution written by William H. Durham and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Darwin's "On the Origins of Species" had two principal goals: to show that species had not been separately created and to show that natural selection had been the main force behind their proliferation and descent from common ancestors. In "Coevolution," the author proposes a powerful new theory of cultural evolution--that is, of the descent with modification of the shared conceptual systems we call "cultures"--that is parallel in many ways to Darwin's theory of organic evolution. The author suggests that a process of cultural selection, or preservation by preference, driven chiefly by choice or imposition depending on the circumstances, has been the main but not exclusive force of cultural change. He shows that this process gives rise to five major patterns or "modes" in which cultural change is at odds with genetic change. Each of the five modes is discussed in some detail and its existence confirmed through one or more case studies chosen for their heuristic value, the robustness of their data, and their broader implications. But "Coevolution" predicts not simply the existence of the five modes of gene-culture relations; it also predicts their relative importance in the ongoing dynamics of cultural change in particular cases. The case studies themselves are lucid and innovative reexaminations of an array of oft-pondered anthropological topics--plural marriage, sickle-cell anemia, basic color terms, adult lactose absorption, incest taboos, headhunting, and cannibalism. In a general case, the author's goal is to demonstrate that an evolutionary analysis of both genes and culture has much to contribute to our understanding of human diversity, particularly behavioral diversity, and thus to the resolution of age-old questions about nature and nurture, genes and culture.
Author : Yolanda Murphy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231515887
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Women of the Forest written by Yolanda Murphy and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it originally appeared, this groundbreaking ethnography was one of the first works to focus on gender in anthropology. The thirtieth anniversary edition of Women of the Forest reconfirms the book's importance for contemporary studies on gender and life in the Amazon. The book covers Yolanda and Robert Murphy's year of fieldwork among the Mundurucú people of Brazil in 1952. The Murphy's ethnographic analysis takes into account the historical, ecological, and cultural setting of the Mundurucú, including the mythology surrounding women, women's work and household life, marriage and child rearing, the effects of social change on the female role, sexual antagonism, and the means by which women compensate for their low social position. The new foreword—written collectively by renowned anthropologists who were all students of the Murphys—is both a tribute to the Murphys and a critical reflection on the continued relevance of their work today.
Author : George Peter Murdock
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822976307
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Theories of Illness written by George Peter Murdock and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1980-12-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important contribution to medical anthropology, this work defines the principal causes if illness that are reported throughout the world, distinguishing those involving natural causation from the more widely prevalent hypotheses advancing supernatural explanations.
Author : Michael Cole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558235
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Mind, Culture, and Activity written by Michael Cole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-13 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents articles important to contemporary studies of the cultural and contextual foundations of human development. It address es the need to create a Psychology which focuses upon the actions of people participating in routine, culturally organized activities. The discussion includes: the nature of context; experiments as contexts; culture-historical theories of culture, context and development; the analysis of classroom settings as a social important context of development, the psychological analysis of activity in situ, and questions of power and discourse.
Author : Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022676883X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book From the Enemy's Point of View written by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Araweté are one of the few Amazonian peoples who have maintained their cultural integrity in the face of the destructive forces of European imperialism. In this landmark study, anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro explains this phenomenon in terms of Araweté social cosmology and ritual order. His analysis of the social and religious life of the Araweté—a Tupi-Guarani people of Eastern Amazonia—focuses on their concepts of personhood, death, and divinity. Building upon ethnographic description and interpretation, Viveiros de Castro addresses the central aspect of the Arawete's concept of divinity—consumption—showing how its cannibalistic expression differs radically from traditional representations of other Amazonian societies. He situates the Araweté in contemporary anthropology as a people whose vision of the world is complex, tragic, and dynamic, and whose society commands our attention for its extraordinary openness to exteriority and transformation. For the Araweté the person is always in transition, an outlook expressed in the mythology of their gods, whose cannibalistic ways they imitate. From the Enemy's Point of View argues that current concepts of society as a discrete, bounded entity which maintains a difference between "interior" and "exterior" are wholly inappropriate in this and in many other Amazonian societies.
Author : Anthony L. Podberscek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521017718
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Companion Animals and Us written by Anthony L. Podberscek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores our complex relationships with pets.
Author : Stephen K. Sanderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350047449
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Religious Evolution and the Axial Age written by Stephen K. Sanderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolutionary sequence can be observed, running from the spirit and shaman dominated religions of small-scale societies, to the archaic religions of the ancient civilizations, and then to the salvation religions of the Axial Age. Stephen K. Sanderson draws on ideas from new cognitive and evolutionary psychological theories, as well as comparative religion, anthropology, history, and sociology. He argues that religion is a biological adaptation that evolved in order to solve a number of human problems, especially those concerned with existential anxiety and ontological insecurity. Much of the focus of the book is on the Axial Age, the period in the second half of the first millennium BCE that marked the greatest religious transformation in world history. The book demonstrates that, as a result of massive increases in the scale and scope of war and large-scale urbanization, the problems of existential anxiety and ontological insecurity became particularly acute. These changes evoked new religious needs, especially for salvation and release from suffering. As a result entirely new religions-Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism-arose to help people cope with the demands of the new historical era.
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Total Pages : 1328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Religious Books, 1876-1982 written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack David Eller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000487253
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Introducing Anthropology of Religion written by Jack David Eller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear and engaging guide introduces students to key areas of the field and shows how to apply an anthropological approach to the study of religion in the contemporary world. Written by an experienced teacher, it covers major traditional topics including definitions, theories, and beliefs, as well as symbols, myth, and ritual. The book also explores important but often overlooked issues such as morality, violence, fundamentalism, secularization, and new religious movements. The chapters all contain lively case studies of religions practiced around the world. The third edition of Introducing Anthropology of Religion is fully updated and contains additional content on material religion, visual religion, and affect theory, and a new chapter takes a closer look at medical and health topics. The author encourages the reader to engage throughout with the unifying themes of race, gender, and power, and how these themes are intertwined with anthropology of religion. Images, a glossary, and questions for discussion are included and additional resources are provided via a companion website.
Author : Mahesh Sharma
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Realm of Faith written by Mahesh Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Will Be Of Particular Interest To Historians Studying Colonial India, The Sociologists, Social Anthropologists, Those Interested In The Study Of Himalaya And People Seeking To Understand Various Issues Related Religion And Its Interface With Society.
Author : Carlos Fausto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107020069
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia written by Carlos Fausto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the culture of the Parakanã, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, focusing on conflict and ritual.
Author : Walter Krickeberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pre-Columbian American Religions written by Walter Krickeberg and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four readable essays by two archaeologists and two social anthropologists summarize knowledge gained from written sources, archaeological finds, and studies of present-day inhabitants concerning the pre-Columbian religions of Mesoamerica, South Central American and Andean civilizations, North America except for the Arctic, and primitive South America and the West Indies.
Author : University of California (System). Institute of Library Research
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967: Subjects written by University of California (System). Institute of Library Research and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
