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Willerslev, Rane. 2007. Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs. Berkeley: University of California Press, p200

Lecture 1 Suicide and the collective conscience

Thompson, K. (ed), 1985, Readings from Emile Durkheim, London: Routledge, pp. 65-85

Chikako Ozawa-de Silva, 2010. Shared Death: Self, Sociality and Internet Group Suicide in Japan. Transcultural Psychiatry 47(3): 392-418.

Lecture 2: Functionalism and Religion

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R.. 1935. On the Concept of Function in Social Science, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 37 (3): 394-402

Radcliffe-Brown, A. R.. 1952. Religion and Society. In Structure and function in primitive society, London: Cohen and West, pp. 153-77

Malinowski, Bronisław. 1926. Myth in primitive psychology. In Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays. New York: Anchor Books, pp. 93-148

Gmelch, George. 2000. Baseball magic. Revised version of Superstition and Ritual in American Baseball, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1992, pp. 25-36

Lecture 3: Witchcraft, Functionalism and the Logic of Belief

Evans-Pritchard, E.E.. Sufferers from misfortune seek for witches among their enemies. In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp.33-55

Evans-Pritchard, E.E.. The Poison Oracle in Daily Life. In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 120-44

Douglas, M. 1980. Chapter five: Accountability among the Azande. In Evans-Pritchard. Sussex: Harvester Press, pp. 46-60.

Gluckman, Max 1956. The Logic in Witchcraft. In Custom and Conflict in Africa. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 81-108.

Lecture 4: Semiotics, Structuralism and the Logic of Belief

Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1963. The sorcerer and his magic. In Structural Anthropology. New York: Basic Books, pp. 167-85

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1966. The Science of the Concrete. In The Savage Mind, Chicago: Chicago University Press, pp. 1-33

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1978. "Primitive" thinking and the "civilized" mind. In Myth and Meaning, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 15-24

Quinn, Naomi and Dorothy Holland 1987. Culture and Cognition. In Cultural Models in Language and Thought, D. Holland and N. Quinn (eds), London: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3–40

Lecture 5: Purity, Pollution and the Structure of Experience

Douglas, Mary. 1979. Purity and Danger, London: Ark, pp. 30-41, 95-109

Dumont, Louis. 1970. Chapter II: From System to Structure: The Pure and the Impure. In Homo Hierarchicus, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 33-64

Ortner, Sherry. 1973. On Key Symbols, American Anthropologist, 75: 1338-1346

Lecture 6: Culture and the Body

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1972. The effectiveness of symbols. In Structural anthropology, vol. 1. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, pp. 186-205

Jackson, Michael. 1983. Knowledge of the Body. Man (NS) Vol. 18 (2), pp. 327-345.

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1994. Embodied knowledge: Thinking with the body in critical medical anthropology. In Assessing Cultural Anthropology, Robert Borofsky (ed.). McGraw-Hill, Inc., pp. 229-42

Lecture 7: Performative Approaches to Culture

Turner, Victor. 1969. Chapter 3. Liminality and communitas. In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldine, pp. 94-130

Kapferer, B, 1983. The Exorcism of the Great Cemetery Demon, A celebration of demons. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 178-206

Sande, A. 2002. Intoxication and Rite of Passage to Adulthood in Norway, Contemporary Drug Problems, 29: 277-304

Lecture 8: Interactive Approaches to Culture

Geertz, Clifford. 1973. Thick description: Toward an interpretive theory of culture. In The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books., Inc. pp. 3-30

Geertz, Clifford. 1973. 1973. Religion as a cultural system. In The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books., Inc. pp. 87-125

Asad, Talal. 1983. Anthropological Concepts of Religion: Reflections on Geertz, Man (N.S.) 18: 237-59

Marcus, George E. and Michael M.J. Fischer. 1986. Ethnography and Interpretive Anthropology. In Anthropology as Cultural Critique, Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, pp. 17-44

Keesing, Roger. 1987. Anthropology as Interpretive Quest, Current Anthropology 28 (2): 161-176.

Lecture 9: Song, Sentiment and Aesthetics

Schieffelin, E.L. 1977. Chapter 10. The Gisaro. In The sorrow of the lonely and the burning of the dancers. St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, pp. 172-96

Feld, Steven. 1990. Chapter 2. To you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest. In Sound and sentiment. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 44-85

Lecture 10: Shamanism and perspective

Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2004. Exchanging Perspectives: The Transformation of Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies, Common Knowledge 10 (3): 463-484

Lecture 11: Religion and Creativity

Lattas, Andrew. 2006a. The utopian promise of government, JRAI 12 (1): 129-50

Lecture 12: Politics, Discourse and Discipline

Foucault, Michel. 1982. The Subject and Power, Critical Inquiry 8: 777-795

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1986. ‘The Forms of Capital’, in Richardson (ed.), Handbook of Theory of Research for the Sociology of Education (London: Greenwood Press, pp. 241-258

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1980. "The Aristocracy of Culture”, Media Culture Society 2: 225-54

Lecture 13: Land, Myth and Identity

Munn, Nancy. 1971. The transformation of subject into objects in Walbiri and Pitjantjatjara myth. In Australian Aboriginal Anthropology, (ed) R. Berndt, Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, pp. 141-63