lists of Figures and Tables ................................... vii
Notes on Contributors .......................................... ix
Introduction .................................................... 1
Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
PART I. RELIGION, EXPERIENCE AND CHANGE
1 Healing ..................................................... 15
Geoffrey Samuel
2 Embodiment, Performance and Healing ......................... 33
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth
3 Mortuary Rituals ............................................ 53
Satsuki Kawano
PART II. RITUAL, MYTH AND CREATIVITY
4 Anthropology, Dreams and Creativity ......................... 71
Katie Glaskin
5 Sacrifice ................................................... 85
Kathryn McClymond
6 Charisma and Myth ........................................... 99
Raphael Falco
PART III. WORK,PLAY AND GENDER
7 Secular Rituals ............................................ 127
Margit Warburg
8 Anthropology of Sport ...................................... 145
John W. Traphagan
9 Gender ..................................................... 161
Victoria Goddard
10 Gender and Space ........................................... 187
Susan Rasmussen
PART IV. STUDIES OF WORLD RELIGIONS
11 Christianity: An (In-)Constant Companion? .................. 209
Simon Coleman
12 On Muslims and the Navigation of Religiosity: Notes on
the Anthropology of Islam .................................. 227
David W. Montgomery
PART V. PERSPECTIVES ON VIOLENCE AND GLOBALIZATION
13 Ethnographies of Political Violence ........................ 257
Sami Hermez
14 Warfare and Ritual in Anthropology ......................... 273
Bryan K. Hanks
15 Globalization and Its Contradictions ....................... 293
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
PART VI. EMERGENT THEMES
16 Languages in Change ........................................ 317
Jonathan D. Hill and Juan Luis Rodriguez
17 Indigenous Knowledge ....................................... 343
Paul Sillitoe
18 Philosophy in Anthropology ................................. 369
Nigl Rapport
19 eAnthropology and the Iliad ................................ 389
Margo Kitts
20 Disaster Anthropology ...................................... 411
Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern
Index ......................................................... 423
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