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January 26, 2015

Religious Reflexivity and Transmissive Frequency (PDF)→

January 26, 2015/ ScienceSites

Harvey Whitehouse (2002). Social Anthropology, Vol. 10, No. 1: pp 91-103.

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January 26, 2015

Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in the Domain of Ritual (PDF)→

January 26, 2015/ ScienceSites

Harvey Whitehouse (2002). V. Antonnen & I. Pyysiainen (eds.) Cognition and Religion: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, London: Continuum.

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January 26, 2015

Transmissive Frequency, Ritual, and Exegesis (PDF)→

January 26, 2015/ ScienceSites

Harvey Whitehouse (2001). Journal of Cognition and Culture, Vol.1, No.2: pp 167-182.

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January 26, 2015

Cultural Cognition and Psychopathology: Anthropological Perspectives→

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Harvey Whitehouse (2000). J. Schumaker & T. Ward (eds.) Cultural Cognition and Psychopathology, Westport: Greenwood.

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January 26, 2015

From Mission to Movement: The Impact of Christianity on Patterns of Political Association in Papua New Guinea (PDF)→

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Harvey Whitehouse (1998). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.), Vol. 4, No. 1: pp 43-63.

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journal-articles, 1998
January 26, 2015

Rites of Terror: Emotion, Metaphor, and Memory in Melanesian Initiation Cults (PDF)→

January 26, 2015/ ScienceSites

Harvey Whitehouse (1996). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.), Vol. 2, No. 4: pp 703-715
* Reprinted in John Corrigan (ed.) Religion and Emotion: Approaches and Interpretations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

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1996, journal-articles
January 26, 2015

Jungles and Computers: Neuronal Group Selection and the Epidemiology of Representations (PDF)→

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Harvey Whitehouse (1996). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.), Vol. 1, No. 1: pp 99-116.

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1996, journal-articles
January 26, 2015

From Possession to Apotheosis: Transformation and Disguise in the Leadership of a Cargo Movement (PDF)→

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Harvey Whitehouse (1996). R. Feinberg & K. A. Watson-Gegeo (eds.) Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific, London: Athlone.

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1996, book-chapter
January 26, 2015

Apparitions, Orations, and Rings: Experience of Spirits in Dadul (PDF)→

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Harvey Whitehouse (1996). A. Howard & J. Mageo (eds.) Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind, London: Routledge.

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January 24, 2015

A Syncretic Context: Mali Baining→

January 24, 2015/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse (1996). The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music 9.

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1996, book-chapter
January 24, 2015

Indigenous Music and Ritual→

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Harvey Whitehouse (1996). The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music 9.

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1996, book-chapter
January 23, 2015

Strong Words and Forceful Winds: Religious Experience and Political Process in Melanesia (PDF)→

January 23, 2015/ ScienceSites

Harvey Whitehouse (1994). Oceania, Vol.65, No. 1: pp 40-58.

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journal-articles, 1994
March 04, 2009

Memorable Religions: Transmission, Codification, and Change in Divergent Melanesian Contexts (PDF)→

March 04, 2009/ ScienceSites

Harvey Whitehouse (1992). Man (N.S.), Vol. 27, No. 3: pp 777-797. Reprinted in Panayotis Pachis and Donald Wiebe (eds.) 2014. In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences. Equinox Publishing, United Kingdom: pp. 479-510.

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journal-articles, 1992
March 01, 2009

Leaders and Logics, Persons and Polities (PDF)→

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Harvey Whitehouse (1991). History and Anthropology, Vol. 6, No. 1: pp 103-124.

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March 01, 2009

Cargoism, Millennialism, and Idealism→

March 01, 2009/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse (1991). Cambridge Anthropology, 15(1): pp 70-84.

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1991, journal-articles
July 01, 2008

The Oscillating Equilibrium of Production among the Mali Baining

July 01, 2008/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse (1989). Research in Melanesia, 13: pp 62-67.

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