Ritual and Memory: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion

by James Laidlaw

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759106177
• ISBN13: 9780759106178
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"