"Two enterprises have proceeded in anthropology since ts earliest days. One, objective in its aspirations and inspired by biological disciplines, seeks explanation and is concerned to discover laws and causes. The other, subjective in its orientation and influenced by philosophy, linguistics, and the humatities, attempts interpretation and seeks to elucidate meanings. I take any raditcal separation of the two to be misguided, for the relationship between tem, with all of its difficulty, ambiguity, and tension, is a reflection of, or metaphor for, the condition of a species that lives in terms of meanings in a physical world devoid of intrinsic meaning but subject to causal law. The concept of adaptatioon when applied to human society must take account of meaning as well as cause, and of the complex dynamic of their relationship." -from the book.
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"While many anthropologists of various epistemological persuasions would perhaps dismiss such topics as the business of priests rather than of scientists, Rappaport correctly perceives that the problem of man's religious consciousness is not only a legitimate object of anthropological study, it might well be the most critical test to which any cultural theory can be put. In Rappaport's essays, we see this test applied with studious logic, empirical relevance, and consistent regard to the naturalistic assumptions of ecological and evolutionary theory."
-Donal F. Tuzin, Ph.D. in American Anthropologist
-Donal F. Tuzin, Ph.D. in American Anthropologist
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anthropocentric communities, ultimate sacred postulates, old functionalism, indexical messages, ritual occurrence, canonical messages, pig festival, cognized environment, liturgical orders, fighting stones, high islands, functional formulations, liturgical performance, ecological anthropology, island ecosystems, functional statements, adaptive structure, vulgar materialism, ritual cycle, pig herd, coral atolls, ritual regulation, conventional states, human rituals, founding populations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Red Spirits, The Obvious Aspects of Ritual, New Guinea, Smoke Woman, American Anthropologist, National Research Council, Cambridge University Press, Ills of Functionalism, Atoll Rsch, Koipa Mangiang, University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, Puka Puka, Bishop Museum Press, Harvard University Press, New Haven, Yale University Press, Canton Island, Spirits of Rot, United States, Biological Sciences, Charles Sanders Peirce, Current Anthropology, Marshall Islands New!
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- Systematic Theology. Three Volumes in One by Paul Tillich on page 246
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- Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object by Johannes Fabian in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism) by Arnold M. Eisen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context by Stanley J. Grenz on page 145, page 146, and Back Matter
- Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Roy A. Rappaport in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Shifting Landmarks: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia around the Year 1000 (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past) by Jeffrey A. Bowman on page 72, and Back Matter
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