Arguments and Icons: Divergent Modes of Religiosity Whitehouse, Harvey (Reader, School of Anthropological Studies, Reader, School of Anthropological Studies, Queen's University of Belfast)

Through a close examination of four Melanesian religious traditions, Whitehouse identifies a set of recurrent interconnections between styles of religious transmission, systems of memory, and patterns of political association. He argues that these interconnections may shed light on a variety of general problems in history, archaeology, and social theory.