The Anthropology of Religion

by Peter Metcalf

This book describes how anthropologists in the twentieth century went about documenting the religions of those independent peoples who still lived beyond the frontiers of the global economy and the world religions. It begins by examining the enormous popularity of the newly invented field of anthropology in the nineteenth century as a site of multiple intellectual developments. Its climax was Frazer's Golden Bough, which is a pillar of modernity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032303166
• ISBN13: 9781032303161
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"