TY - BOOK AU - Lessa, William A. AU - Evon Z Vogt AU - with the assistance of John M. Watanabe TI - Reader in comparative religion: an anthropological approach SN - 0060439912 AV - BL 80.2 L567 1979 PY - 1979/// CY - New York PB - Harper & Row, Publishers KW - Religions KW - Addresses, essays, lectures N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGION Animism -- Totem and Taboo: an ethnologic psychoanalysis -- Totem and taboo in retrospect -- The elementary forms of the religious life -- THE FUNCTION OF RELIGION IN HUMAN SOCIETY The role of magic and religion -- Taboo -- Anxiety and ritual: the theories of Malinowski and Radcliffee-Brown -- Religious perspectives in sociology and social psychology -- Myths and rituals: a general theory -- Religion as a cultural system -- THE INTERPRETATION OF SYMBOLISM On key symbols -- Social hair -- The deer-maize-peyote symbol complex among the Huichol Indians of Mexico -- THE ANALYSIS OF MYTH The Apotheosis of Marespa -- Earth-diver: creation of the mythopoeic male -- The structural study of myth -- The head and the Loins: Levi-Strauss and beyond -- Chamula genres of verbal behavior -- THE SYMBOLIC ANALYSIS OF RITUAL Two essays concerning the symbolic representation of time -- Ritualization in man in relation to conceptual and social development -- Betwixt and between: the liminal period in rites de passage -- Ritual man in Africa -- Ritual, sanctity, and cybernetics -- Metaphors of hierarchy in a Mayan ritual -- Levi-Strauss among the north American Indians -- The Zuni Shalako ceremony -- The Peyote Way -- THE PURPOSES OF SHAMANISM Shamanistic performance in the inner room -- A Shaman's journey to the sea spirit -- Percussion and transition -- The effectiveness of symbols -- Aspects of cognition in Zinacanteco Shamans: experimental results -- INTERPRETATIONS OF MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, AND DIVINATION A fresh approach to the problem of magic and religion -- Sympathetic magic -- The form and meaning of magical acts: a point of view -- Witchcraft explains unfortunate events -- "Voodoo" death -- Divination as a phase in a social process -- A new perspective -- THE MEANING OF GHOSTS AND ANCESTOR WORSHIP An interpretation of ambivalence of two American Indian Tribes -- Ancestors as elders in Africa - further thoughts -- Ritual aspects of Chinese kinship -- The nature of Katcinas -- DYNAMICS IN RELIGION Nativistic movements -- Revitalization movements -- The Navaho Indians and the ghost dance of 1890 -- Big men and cargo cults -- Millenarianism -- "Internal coversion" in contemporary Bali -- ER -