Magico-religious practitioner types and socioeconomic conditions
Cross-Cultural Research • Vol/Iss. 20(1-4) • Sage • • Published In • Pages: 17-46 •
By Winkelman, Michael James
Hypothesis
"the nature of the selection procedures for magico-religious roles is strongly related to the activities in which practitioners engage" (33)
Note
This is a descriptive generalization, derived from entailogram analysis. "the relevant role selection factors are (a) trance training (b) social succession or political action, and (c) ascription of negative roles...These role selection procedures lead to activities involving: (a) trance training (b) social succession or political action, and (c) ascription of negative roles....and (a) healing and divination; (b) propitiation, agriculture, and protection; and (c) malevolent acts, respectively" (33).
| Test Name | Support | Significance | Coefficient | Tail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |