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Primitive Religion
Outline: Authoritative, lively, and eminently readable, Primitive Religion is the definitive work in its field, Dr. Lowie first describes the beliefs, codes, and practies of a variety of primitive religions. Then he critically surveys these beliefs, incisively probing their psychological and historical aspects. Along the way Lowie includes a wealth of strange and fascinating information - details like the self-mutilation of devotees, human butchery perpetrated out of fear or sorcery, bits of superstition that are sometimes amusingly naive and sometimes horrifying. Few people have been as well-informed on primitive religions as the late Dr. Robert A. Lowie. A graduate of City College of New York and Columbia University, Dr. Lowie served as Assistant Curator of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History and was later Professor of Anthropology at the University of California.
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