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My fav. ethnography is Vincent Crapanzano's "Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan".


Robert Segal, "The Myth-Ritualist Theory of Religion"
Maya Deren, "The Divine Horseman Ritual"
Claude Lévi-Strauss, "Myth and Meaning"
— "The Structural Study of Myth"
— "The Sorcerer and His Magic"
Radcliffe-Brown, "Taboo"
Monica Wilson, "Nyakusa Ritual"
E. Durkheim, "Social as Sacred"
Sherry Ortner, "God's Bodies, God's Food"
Edmund Leach, "Virgin Birth"
— "Magical Hair"
— "Once a Knight is Quite Enough"
— "Genesis as Myth"
Melford Spiro, "Virgin Birth, Parthenogenesis and Physiological Paternity"
Clifford Geertz, "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight"
Keith Basso, "Portraits of 'The Whiteman': Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache"
E. Evans-Pritchard, "Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande"
James Siegel, "The Truth of Sorcery"
Victor Turner, "Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual"
— "Ndembu Color Symbolism"
— "Symbols in Ndembu Ritual"
Richard Antoun, "The Past in the Present: 'Traditioning,' the Proof-Text, and the Covenant"
Maurice Bloch, "The Ritual of the Royal Bath in Merina"
Bruce Lincoln, "Ritual, Rebellion, Resistance"
Michael A. Mason, "I Bow My Head to the Ground"
Stanley Tambiah, "A Performative Approach to Ritual"
Malinowski, "Myth in Primitive Psychology"
Freud, "The Return of Totemism in Childhood"
Michael P. Carroll, "A New Look at Freud on Myth: Reanalyzing the Star-Husband Tale"
Bruno Bettelheim, "Freud and Man's Soul"
Jacob Arlow, "Ego Psychology and Study of Mythology"
Mircea Eliade, "Cosmogonic Myth"
Barber & Barber, "When they Severed Sky from Earth"
Salva Weil, "The Language and Ritual of Socialization: Birthday Parties in a Kindergarten"
Myra Bluebond-Langner, "The Private Worlds of Dying Children"
Lawrence & Jewett, "Myth of the American Superhero"
Karen Ho, "Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street"
Nicholas Black Elk, "Black Elk Speaks"
Stanley Freed & Ruth Freed, "Taraka's Ghost"
Michelle Stephen, "A'aisa's Gift"

>>11828008
yes on Sorel and Rank, skip Frazer

My fav. ethnography is Vincent Crapanzano's "Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan".


Robert Segal, "The Myth-Ritualist Theory of Religion"
Maya Deren, "The Divine Horseman Ritual"
Claude Lévi-Strauss, "Myth and Meaning"
— "The Structural Study of Myth"
— "The Sorcerer and His Magic"
Radcliffe-Brown, "Taboo"
Monica Wilson, "Nyakusa Ritual"
E. Durkheim, "Social as Sacred"
Sherry Ortner, "God's Bodies, God's Food"
Edmund Leach, "Virgin Birth"
— "Magical Hair"
— "Once a Knight is Quite Enough"
— "Genesis as Myth"
Melford Spiro, "Virgin Birth, Parthenogenesis and Physiological Paternity"
Clifford Geertz, "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight"
Keith Basso, "Portraits of 'The Whiteman': Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache"
E. Evans-Pritchard, "Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande"
James Siegel, "The Truth of Sorcery"
Victor Turner, "Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual"
— "Ndembu Color Symbolism"
— "Symbols in Ndembu Ritual"
Richard Antoun, "The Past in the Present: 'Traditioning,' the Proof-Text, and the Covenant"
Maurice Bloch, "The Ritual of the Royal Bath in Merina"
Bruce Lincoln, "Ritual, Rebellion, Resistance"
Michael A. Mason, "I Bow My Head to the Ground"
Stanley Tambiah, "A Performative Approach to Ritual"
Malinowski, "Myth in Primitive Psychology"
Freud, "The Return of Totemism in Childhood"
Michael P. Carroll, "A New Look at Freud on Myth: Reanalyzing the Star-Husband Tale"
Bruno Bettelheim, "Freud and Man's Soul"
Jacob Arlow, "Ego Psychology and Study of Mythology"
Mircea Eliade, "Cosmogonic Myth"
Barber & Barber, "When they Severed Sky from Earth"
Salva Weil, "The Language and Ritual of Socialization: Birthday Parties in a Kindergarten"
Myra Bluebond-Langner, "The Private Worlds of Dying Children"
Lawrence & Jewett, "Myth of the American Superhero"
Karen Ho, "Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street"
Nicholas Black Elk, "Black Elk Speaks"
Stanley Freed & Ruth Freed, "Taraka's Ghost"
Michelle Stephen, "A'aisa's Gift"

Oh, you might also get a lot of mileage out of this link: https://www.afsnet.org/page/RecentBooks


>>11832891
lmao, i guess, if you're into that sort of vapid bullshitting