An important contribution to medical anthropology, this work defines the principal causes if illness that are reported throughout the world, distinguishing those involving natural causation from the more widely prevalent hypotheses advancing supernatural explanations.
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| Preface |
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3 | (5) |
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II Theories of Natural Causation |
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8 | (9) |
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III Theories of Supernatural Causation |
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17 | (11) |
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IV Behavioral Science and the Comparative Ethnographic Method |
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28 | (14) |
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42 | (11) |
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VI Man's Ideational Environment |
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53 | (4) |
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VII Witchcraft Theories and the Circum-Mediterranean |
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57 | (7) |
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VIII The Antithesis of Sorcercy and Witchcraft Theories |
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64 | (8) |
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IX Incidence of Spirit Aggression Theories |
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72 | (5) |
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X Aggression and Its Projection |
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77 | (5) |
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XI The Pastoral Relationship |
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82 | (6) |
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XII Sin, Sex, and Sickness |
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88 | (11) |
| Appendix: The Societies Surveyed: Identification and Bibliography |
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99 | (24) |
| Index |
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George Peter Murdock (1897-1985) was Andrew Mellon Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.
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