Racism, 251, 252, 290
Ramble, Charles, 84
Rappaport, Roy, 233
Rationalizations, 24
Rats, 119
Reciprocation, 183, 184
Refutation.See under Beliefs
Reincarnation, 7, 63, 280
Relational catch, 245, 246
[372] Relevance, 14, 160–167, 179–180, 189,
190, 197, 202, 228, 236, 248, 254,
256, 258, 262, 291, 314
aggregate, 298, 299, 319, 325
Relics, 229, 231, 232, 233, 237, 256, 263
Religion, 134– 135
acquisition of, 4, 317– 318
and agency detection, 147. See also
Agency detection
vs. "a" religion, 9, 267, 269, 270
Churches vs. civil societies, 24
codes of, 173, 174
common features of, 325. See also
Concepts, common features in
religious concepts
and concept selection, 33
contemplative view of, 138
and death vs. dead bodies, 228. See also
Corpses
diversity of, 3, 6–10, 32, 49
formerly intractable questions
concerning, 48– 49
as illusion, 27– 31
and misfortune, 169–170
modernized, 296
and morality, 169, 170, 171–174, 191,
202, 280, 282, 285, 294, 295, 311
official, 8
origins of, 4–6, 11–12, 32, 33, 48, 50,
91, 195, 204, 322, 324other people's views of religious
agents, 167, 326–327
and political power, 276–277
as practical, 137–142, 283, 312
religious experience, 307– 311
religious institutions, 273, 274, 277,
284
religious specialists, 269–273, 276,
277, 280, 281, 282, 302, 311, 328.
See also Guilds; Healers; Priests;
Shamans
vs. science, 320– 322
as special domain, 307–311, 320– 321
and strangeness, 54–57, 81
threats to authority of, 283–285
universal, 9
Revelation, 282, 285, 320
Reverse engineering, 26
Richerson, P., 34
Ridley, Matt, 125, 288
Rites of passage, 209
Rituals, 7, 13–14, 19–20, 25, 26, 90, 160,
192, 193, 194, 200, 229–230, 265,
270, 271, 286, 327, 328
as agent-special vs. patient-special,
259–260
birth rituals, 247, 260, 269
about death, 203, 207–210, 211, 212,
213, 215, 223, 224, 279. See also
Burials/funerals
fees for, 273–274, 275
as general human activity, 231, 255
gods' roles in, 258– 262
and guilds, 275
induction of new shaman, 230, 256,
258, 259
and local specialists, 276, 277
loud, 260, 261, 284, 285
and marking boundaries, 237, 265INDEX