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Lambek, Michael, ed. A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion.(Book Review)

From: International Social Science Review  |  Date: 9/22/2003  |  Author: Ragan, Elizabeth A.

Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. 620 pages. Paper, $39.95.

This is another anthology in Blackwell's series on social and cultural anthropology, a reader that ambitiously attempts to represent the full breadth, depth, and complexity of anthropology's investigations into religion. Lambek characterizes these inquiries as a discourse--not only between Western and non-Western cultures (the traditional "Other" of anthropological inquiry), but also between anthropology and other ...

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