1st Edition
At the Mountains’ Altar Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community
Introduction
1. A single nest (and some theories about cognitive-evolutionary foundations of religiosity)
2. A little palace of analogies (and a revised structuralist view of cultural fundamentals)
3. Children of the mummy Libiac Cancharco (and ideas about the sacralization of society)
4. Songs for herds and crops (and thoughts about religious experience) with Luis Andrade Ciudad
5. Mending their sacred things (and thinking about religion as symbolism, science, or power)
6. A temple by night (and religions as other ontologies)
7. The ground trembles (closing thoughts on secularity and the "material turn")
Biography
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.
"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
