The Anthropology of Religion
Spring 2009
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Anthropological traditions
Tylor and Frazer
Pals, Daniel L.
1996 Animism and Magic: E.B. Tylor and J.G. Frazer. In Seven Theories of Religion. Chpt. 1. New York: Oxford University Press.

Religion and Society: Durkheim
Durkheim, Emile
1995 The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Introduction and Chpt. 1. New York: The Free Press.

Religion and Society:Weber
Eliade, Mircea
1959 The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.

Religion and Culture: Geertz
Geertz, Clifford
1973 Religion As a Cultural System. In The Interpretation of Cultures, Chpt. 4. New York: Basic Books.
Asad, Talal
1993 The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category. In Genealogies of Religion. Pp. 27-54. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.

Myth
Levi-Strauss, Claude
1976 The Story of Asdiwal. In Structure Anthropology, vol. 2. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1958.)

Totemism
Levi-Strauss, Claude
1963 Totemism. Boston: Beacon Press. (Orignal work published 1962)

Ritual and Ritual Studies
Van Gennep, Arnold
1960 The Rites of Passage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (First published in 1909)
Turner, Victor W.
1964 Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage. Symposium on New Approaches to the Study of Religion. June Helms, ed. Pp. 4-20. Seattle: American ethnological Society.
Grimes, Ronald L.
1982 Beggings in Ritual Studies. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
Segal, Robert A.
2005 Myth and Ritual. In The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion. John R. Hinnells, ed. Pp. 369-378. London: Routledge.

Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Magic
Evans-Pritvhard, E.E.
1976 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (First Published in 1937)
Favret-Saada, Jeanne
1980 Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja
1991 Magic, Science, Religion and the Scope of R