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Radcliff-Brown, A. R., 222

Radin, Paul: Primitive Man as a Philosopher , 280

Rappaport, Roy A.: Pigs for the Ancestors , 220

Religion: evangelicalism, 6 -7, 49 , 253 , 271 ;

and ideology, 246 -247, 256 -257;

irreducibility of, 50 -51;

ritual attraction of, 6 -7

Richmond, Harry, 239

Ritual, 22 , 23 , 60 , 247 , 253 ;

attraction of for alienated, 6 -7;

basis for, 23 -24;

calcified, 22 , 29 -30, 90 ;

and ceramics, 151 -152;

degraded, 144 ;

and caring, 184 ;

as expression of nostalgia, 24 -25;

and fictive kinship, 74 , 138 ;

fugitive, 23 , 72 -73, 144 , 247 , 283 ;

function in traditional societies, 43 -45;

and ideology, 247 ;

importance to world construction, 49 -55, 85 , 281 -282;

and individualism, 32 , 167 ;

of initiation, 49 -50, 215 ;

liminality of, 80 -82, 247 ;

and material culture, 164 -166, 186 -189;

and mythology, 70 , 71 , 138 , 257 ;

and neoteny, 24 ;

nonverbal aspects of, 23 , 71 , 257 ;

persistence of in modern environment, 32 , 44 -45, 49 -51, 197 -198, 253 , 281 -282, 283 ;

phases of as defined by


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Turner, 80 -81;

and reconfiguration of symbol, 25 , 27 ;

as reenactment of ancestors' actions, 24 , 138 ;

and religion, 6 -7, 247 ;

and replication of primordial states, 138 , 257 ;

as return to paradise, 63 -64, 82 -83;

role in affirming relationships, 138 ;

role in transformation of Southwest, 247 ;

shaping of material world, 29 ;

of summer solstice, 81 ;

and trade, 132 , 142 ;

transformation of chaos through, 24

Ritual exchange: associated with Bent's Old Fort, 22 , 30 , 173 , 194 , 253 , 281 ;

nature of among Plains Indians, 21 -22, 28 , 109 -111, 129 -130, 142 -143, 155 , 222 ;

in Trobriand, 136 -137

Robidoux, Antoine, 121

Roe, Frank Gilbert: The Indian and the Horse , 9 , 150

Romantic love: as watershed between traditional and modern societies, 52 -53

Ruxton, George F., 175


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