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9781571817112

Taboo, Truth, and Religion

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  • ISBN13:

    9781571817112

  • ISBN10:

    1571817115

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Author Biography

Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King's College London and specialises in interdisciplinary subjects such as literature and science, poetry and painting, literature and anthropology. Richard Fardon is Professor in West African Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and has carried out extensive ethnographic research in Cameroon and Nigeria.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii
Contents of Volume II viii
Acknowledgements x
A Note on Quotations xvi
PART I: INTRODUCTIONS
Franz Steiner. A Memoir
3(13)
Mary Douglas
An Oriental in the West: The Life of Franz Baermann Steiner
16(87)
Jeremy Adler
Richard Fardon
PART II: TABOO
The Discovery of Taboo
103(13)
Taboo in Polynesia (1)
116(9)
Taboo in Polynesia (2)
125(7)
A Victorian Problem: Robertson Smith
132(8)
Taboo and Contagion
140(8)
Taboo and the 'Holy'
148(9)
The Hebrew Bible: Snaith and Frazer
157(14)
Frazer and His Critic, Marett
171(10)
Taboo as Negative Mana
181(8)
Van Gennep and Radcliffe-Brown
189(8)
Wundt and Freud
197(12)
The Problem of Taboo
209(42)
Bibliography. Reviews of Taboo
215(8)
PART III: RELIGIOUS TRUTH
How to Define Superstition?
223(7)
Enslavement and the Early Hebrew Lineage System: An Explanation of Genesis 47: 29-31, 48: 1-16
230(5)
Chagga Law and Chagga Truth
235(16)
Bibliography and References to Volumes I and II 251(18)
Name Index to Volume I 269(4)
Subject Index to Volume I 273

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