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Cults --- Mana. --- Latin language --- Semantics. --- Rome --- Civilization.

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This volume contains a critical edition, English translation and essays on the initial section of the Kasikavrtti (7th c. CE), the oldest complete commentary on the Astadhyayi of Panini.

Sanskrit language --- Abbreviations, Sanskrit. --- Sanskrit abbreviations --- Grammar. --- Abbreviations --- Vāmana, --- Pāṇini.

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‘Mana’, a term denoting spiritual power, is found in many Pacific Islands languages. In recent decades, the term has been taken up in New Age movements and online fantasy gaming. In this book, 16 contributors examine mana through ethnographic, linguistic, and historical lenses to understand its transformations in past and present. The authors consider a range of contexts including Indigenous sovereignty movements, Christian missions and Bible translations, the commodification of cultural heritage, and the dynamics of diaspora. Their investigations move across diverse island groups - Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Hawai‘i, and French Polynesia - and into Australia, North America and even cyberspace. A key insight that the volume develops is that mana can be analysed most productively by paying close attention to its ethical and aesthetic dimensions. Since the late nineteenth century, mana has been an object of intense scholarly interest. Writers in many fields including anthropology, linguistics, history, religion, philosophy, and missiology have long debated how the term should best be understood. The authors in this volume review mana’s complex intellectual history but also describe the remarkable transformations going on in the present day as scholars, activists, church leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs take up mana in new ways.

Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Mana --- History. --- Magic --- Religion --- Witchcraft --- cultural heritage --- pacific languages --- spiritual power --- Tapu (Polynesian culture)

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Magic --- Mana --- Rites and ceremonies --- Taboo --- Magie --- Rites et cérémonies --- Tabou --- Purity, Ritual --- Religion --- Sacrilege --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- Magic. --- Mana. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Taboo. --- Rites et cérémonies --- Witchcraft

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Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917) was an English anthropologist who is widely considered the founder of anthropology as a scientific discipline. He was the first Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford from 1896 to 1909, and developed a broad definition of culture which is still used by scholars. First published in 1871, this classic work explains Tylor's idea of cultural evolution in relation to anthropology, a social theory which states that human cultures invariably change over time to become more complex. Unlike his contemporaries, Tylor did not link biological evolution to cultural evolution, asserting that all human minds are the same irrespective of a society's state of evolution. His book was extremely influential in popularising the study of anthropology and establishing cultural evolution as the main theoretical framework followed by anthropologists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Volume 1 focuses on social evolution, language and myth.

Ethnology. --- Mythology. --- Language and languages. --- Animism. --- Fetishism --- Mana --- Religion --- Hylozoism --- Soul --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Myths --- Legends --- Religions --- Folklore --- Gods --- Myth --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings