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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT REDFIELD

Magic, Science and Religion

    I. PRIMITIVE MAN AND HIS RELIGION

   II. RATIONAL MASTERY BY MAN OF HIS SURROUNDINGS

  III. LIFE, DEATH, AND DESTINY IN EARLY FAITH AND CULT

1. The Creative Acts of Religion

2. Providence in Primitive Life

3. Man’s Selective Interest in Nature

4. Death and the Reintegration of the Group

 IV. THE PUBLIC AND TRIBAL CHARACTER OF PRIMITIVE CULTS

1. Society as the Substance of God

2. The Moral Efficiency of Savage Beliefs

3. Social and Individual Contributions in Primitive Religion

  V. THE ART OF MAGIC AND THE POWER OF FAITH

1. The Rite and the Spell

2. The Tradition of Magic

3. Mana and the Virtue of Magic

4. Magic and Experience

5. Magic and Science

6. Magic and Religion

Myth in Primitive Psychology
DEDICATION TO SIR JAMES FRAZER

    I. THE ROLE OF MYTH IN LIFE

   II. MYTHS OF ORIGIN

  III. MYTHS OF DEATH AND OF THE RECURRENT CYCLE OF LIFE

  IV. MYTHS OF MAGIC

   V. CONCLUSION

Baloma; the Spirits of the Dead
in the Trobriand Islands

    I. GENERAL REMARKS CONCERNING THE INDEPENDENCE OF MORTUARY PRACTICES, AND THE WELFARE OF THE SPIRIT; THE TWO FORMS OF SPIRIT OR GHOST, THE baloma AND THE kosi; THE mulukuausi, TERRIBLE BEINGS WHICH HAUNT THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF A CORPSE

   II. THE JOURNEY OF THE SPIRIT (baloma) TO THE NETHER WORLD; ITS ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION IN Tuma, THE ISLAND OF THE SPIRITS

  III. COMMUNION BETWEEN THE baloma AND THE LIVING; ACTUAL MEETINGS IN WAKING CONDITION; COMMUNION THROUGH DREAMS AND VISIONS; NATURE OF THE baloma AND THE kosi

  IV. RETURN OF THE SPIRITS TO THEIR VILLAGES DURING THE ANNUAL FEAST, THE milamala

   V. PART PLAYED BY THE SPIRITS IN MAGIC; REFERENCES TO ANCESTORS IN MAGICAL SPELLS

  VI. BELIEFS IN REINCARNATION

 VII. IGNORANCE OF THE PHYSIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

VIII.SOME GENERAL STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE SOCIOLOGY OF BELIEF

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