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Malinowski, Bronislaw
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1986 The Cult of the Virgin Mary: Pyschological Origins. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Needham, Rodney (editor)
1973 Right Left. essays on dual Symbolic Classification. Chicago: University of
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Roth, Marty
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Scholte, Bob
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1983 Oromo Religion: Myths and Rites of the Western Oromo of Ethiopia: An Attempt to Understand. Berlin: Reimer.
Blakely, Thomas D. et al.
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1987 Religion, Morality and the Person: Essays on Tallensi Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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1936 Naven. Stanford University Press. [New Guinea]
Belo, Jane
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Geertz, Clifford
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1982 Kwaio Religion. The Living and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society. N.Y.: Columbia University Press. BL2630 .K85K43 1982
Keyes, Charles F. and E. V. Daniel (editors)
1983 Karma: an Anthropological Inquiry. Berkeley: University of California Press. BL 2015 .K36
Kipp, Rita Smith and Susan Rodgers (editors)
1987 Indonesian Religions in Transition. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. BL2110 .I52 1987
Lawrence, Peter
1964 Road Belong Cargo: A Study of the Cargo Movement in the Southern Madang District in New Guinea. Manchester University Press.
Meigs, Anna S.
1984 Food, Sex, and Pollution. A New Guinea Religion. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. BL2630 .H82M44 1984
Munro, Neil G.
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Spiro, Melford
1978 Burmese Supernaturalism. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues. BL 2030.B8 S67
Worsley, Peter
1957 The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of Cargo Cults in Melanesia. London: MacGibbon & Kee.
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Crocker, Jon C.
1985 Vital Souls: Bororo Cosmology, Natural Symbolism, and Shamanism. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Goldman, I.
1975 The Mouth of Heaven: An Introduction to Kwakiutl Religious Thought. N.Y.: Wiley.
Farrer, Claire R.
1994 Thunder Rides a Black Horse: Mescalero Apaches and the Mythic Present. Propsect Hts.: Waveland.
Harrod, Howard L.
1995 Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American Religions on the Northern Plains. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Kehoe, Alice B.
1989 The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization. N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart.
Kroeber, A. L.
1976 Yurok Myths. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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1986 Sacred Language: The Nature of the Supernatural Discourse in Lakota. Norman: Univ. Oklahoma Press.
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1991 Lakota Belief and Ritual. Lincoln: Univ. Nebraska Press.
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1972 The Death and Ribrith of the Seneca. N.Y.: Vintage Books.
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Atkinson, Jane M.
1992 Shamanisms today, Annual Review of Anthropology 21:307-330. GN 1 .A5 [excellent bibliography]
Balzer, Marjorie M.
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Boddy, Janice
1994 Spirit possession revisted: Beyond instrumentality, Annual Review of Anthropology 23:407-434. GN 1 .A5
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1996 "Korean shamans and the spirits of capitalism." American Anthropologist 98:3:512-527.
Kluckhohn, Clyde
1944 Navajo Witchcraft. Cambridge: Harvard University, Peabody Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, Papers, Vol. 22, No. 2
Lewis, Gilbert
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1982 The Cult of Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic. N.Y.
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1987 Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing.
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Torrance, Robert M.
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1995 Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of Gender. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
(ch. 8, "Gender and Religion", pp. 204-224)
Bullough, Vern L.
1980 Sexual Variance in Society and History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bynum, Caroline W. et al.
1986 Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols. Boston: Beacon Press.
Herdt, Gilbert
1981 Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity. N.Y.: McGraw Hill. .
Sered, Susan Starr
1994 Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women. Oxford: Oxford University Press. BL 458 .S45 1994
Weigle, Marta
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Williams, Walter L.
1988 The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture. Boston: Beacon.
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· Australia's Twilight of the Dreamtime (1988) V-728
· Bali, Masterpiece of the Gods (1990) V-1201
· The Balad of Narayama (1983) V-2506 [Japan]
· Box of Treasures (1983) V-2081 [Kwakiutl of British Columbia]
· Cree Hunters of the Mistassini (1984) V-206
· Dead Birds (1962) [on New Guinea tribal warfare]
· Devil worship: The Rise of Satanism (1990) V-2352
· Hinduism: An Ancient Path in the Modern World (1992) V-3517
· Hinduism: 330 Million Gods (1977) V-2336
· Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World (1983) V-338
· The Jolo Serpent-Handlers (1977) V-1501 [snake handling in Appalacian fundamentalism]
· Legacy of the Spirits (1985) V-1502 [on Caribbean religions]
· Millennium: An Ecology of Mind (1992) V-1866
· Millennium: Inventing Reality (1992) V-1870
· Millennium: Mistaken Identity (1992) V-1865
· Millennium: The Art of Living (1992) V-1867
· Millennium: Touching the Timeless (1992) V-
· Myth of Naro, as told by Kaobawa (1975) V-2084 [Yanomamo Indians]
· Out of the Past: The Spirit World (1993) V-2273 [archaeological reconstruction of religion]
· Popol Vuh: The Creation Myth of the Maya (1990) V-1513
· Sandpainting: Sacred Art of Tibet (1991) V-2459
· Shark Callers of Kontu (1986) V-261 [on Papua New Guinea island]
· Strange Beliefs (1990) V-2437
· Voodoo and the Church in Haiti (1988) V-1186
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