At the Mountains' Altar: Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community

ISBN-13: 9781138037502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 236 str.

Frank Salomon

Opis

This book is designed to interrogate theories in the anthropology of religion through a consideration of the ritual practices and belief systems of the Andean community of Rapaz. The book demonstrates how detailed ethnographic research of a specific religious tradition can illuminate multiple, competing and complementary approaches to the anthropology of religion. Salomon's style allows for an appraisal of classical approaches in the anthropology of religion whilst simultaneously providing an effective means to critically evaluate the more recent ontological turn. Interjecting different theoretical paradigms to make sense of ethnographic particulars, Salomon delivers theories of religion from the realm of abstraction and provides students with a much richer understanding of alternate religious experiences. This book is essential reading for students taking courses on the anthropology of religion, Andean Archaeology, Latin American ethnography, introduction to the study of religion, and indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Recenzje

"At the Mountains’ Altar will be a vital resource for undergraduate and postgraduate modules on the
anthropology of religion, whether or not there is a focus on Christianity and/or the Andes. It will also be invaluable in the teaching of fieldwork methods[...]the book has a wider reach than the classroom. It is a book to be enjoyed for the author’s keen insights into what he calls religiosity, and how his responses to his reading of an intriguing range of authors can be used to illuminate a phenomenon that cannot be satisfactorily defined yet still has the power to demand our attention."
Penelope Dransart, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, BioOne Complete

O autorze

Frank Salomon is the John V. Murra Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa, USA.