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`Arguments and Icons is ... a brilliant example of interdisciplinary work bearing on significant issues in the comparative study of religion in particular, and cognitive anthropology more generally ... this volume should be considered required reading for those who fear reductionism but are interested in how cognition might bear on complicated cultural systems. Whitehouse preserves the rich complexity and detail of the phenomena under consideration while rendering it scientifically tractable.' Justin L Barrett, Journal of Cognition and Culture `Whitehouse's Inside the Cult (Oxford, 1995) ... established a model for marrying cognitive science with field work. He's done it again.' Justin L Barrett, Journal of Cognition and Culture

... clearly written ... challenging. * The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *

... clearly written ... challenging. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

`Arguments and Icons is ... a brilliant example of interdisciplinary work bearing on significant issues in the comparative study of religion in particular, and cognitive anthropology more generally ... this volume should be considered required reading for those who fear reductionism but are interested in how cognition might bear on complicated cultural systems. Whitehouse preserves the rich complexity and detail of the phenomena under consideration while rendering it scientifically tractable.' Justin L Barrett, Journal of Cognition and Culture `Whitehouse's Inside the Cult (Oxford, 1995) ... established a model for marrying cognitive science with field work. He's done it again.' Justin L Barrett, Journal of Cognition and Culture

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Harvey Whitehouse is Reader in the School of Anthropological Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast.

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