Despite advanced technology, the practice of water witching, using a forked stick to indicate an underground source of water, persists in both rural and urban areas. Water Witching U.S.A. is a lively look at "dowsing," full of personal accounts, historical background, and data from controlled experiments and a nationwide survey. This study includes a collection of photographs, drawings, and historical woodcuts showing the tools, techniques, and early...

This case study explores the Zinacenteco belief system as represented in ceremonies, rituals and daily life, and discusses how that belief system also serves as a philosophy, cosmology, theology, code of values and science. -- Amazon.

"This reader offers an overview of anthropological findings about religion that spans 100 years of work. Eighteen new readings are among the fifty-six selections in the Fourth Edition. The selections are organized into nine categories: The Origin and Development of Religion, The Function of Religion in Human Society, The Interpretation of Symbolism, The Analysis of Myth, The Symbolic Analysis of Ritual, The Purposes of Shamanism, Interpretations of...