University at Buffalo (UB)
Phillips Stevens Jr.
PhD
Research Topics
Cultural anthropology, religion, cultural change; West Africa, Caribbean
Education
- PhD, Northwestern University
- MA, Northwestern University
- BA, Yale University
Selected Publications
- 2018 The Sacred Mount: Toward an Anthropology of Sacred Mountains. In The Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes. Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference of the Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology, Buffalo, April 2017. Arnau Garcia, ed. Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming.
- 2016 40 Years at Play: What Have We Achieved? Keynote Address delivered at the 40th Anniversary Meeting of The Association for the Study of Play, April 2014. In Celebrating 40 Years of Play Research: Connecting our Past, Present, and Future. Play and Culture Studies, Vol. 13. Michael M. Patte and John A. Sutterby, eds. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books/Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 3-18.
- 2016 Anthropology and Sacrifice. In Diversity of Sacrifice: Form and Function of Sacrificial Practices in the Ancient World and Beyond. Proceedings of 2011 IEMA Conference. Carrie Murray, ed. Albany: SUNY Press, pp. 15-29.
- 2015 Articles on “Culture and Sexuality” (283-290), “Mystical Genital Power” (pp. 469-471), and “Pollution, Sexual” (913-915) in International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin, eds. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
- 2015 The Star of Bethlehem: Exploring the Persian Connection. Natural History, April, 36-38.
- 2012 TA(A)SP: The Formative Years. The International Journal of Play I, 1, March, 96-102.2011 (ed.) The Anthropology of Religion: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies. 4 volumes. London: Routledge.
- 2011 (ed.) The Anthropology of Religion: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies. 4 volumes. London: Routledge.
- 2010b “Cults,” in Brigitte H. Bechtold and Donna Cooper Graves, eds. An Encyclopedia of Infanticide. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 76-78.
- 2010a Articles on “Esu” (Vol. I, pp. 347-8), “Mangu” (II, 99-101), “Spirits and Spirit Possession” (II, 355-357), “Vodou” (II, 411-413), and “Witchcraft” (II, 429-434). In, F. Abiola Irele and Biodun Jeyifo, eds., Encyclopedia of African Thought. New York: Oxford University Press.
- 2008b Play and Liminality in Rites of Passage: From Elder to Ancestor in West Africa (see 2004a) In Richard L. Warms, James F. Garber, and R. Jon McGee, eds., Sacred Realms: Essays in Religion, Belief, and Society. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw- Hill, pp. 175-185.
- 2008a Universal Cultural Elements in the Satanic Demonology. In James R. Lewis and Jesper A. Petersen, eds., Encyclopedic Sourcebook of Satanism. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 264-273.
- 2006b Women’s Aggressive Use of Genital Power in Africa. Transcultural Psychiatry, special issue in honor of Raymond Prince. Vol. 43, No. 4, December, 592-599.
- 2006a Articles on “Magic” (pp. 1512-1518), “Mana” (1525-1526), “Sorcery” (2117-2120), “Symboling” (2148-2150), “Taboos” (2153-2154), “Witch Doctor” (2317-2318), and ‘Witchcraft” (2319-2324). In Encyclopedia of Anthropology. H. James Birx, ed. Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage Publications.
- 2005 “Witches.” In Anand Prahlad, ed., The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African-American Folklore. Westport , CT : Greenwood Press, pp. 1375-1381.
- 2005 Articles on “Magic, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Africa” (pp. 684-688) and “Magic, Sorcery and Witchcraft in the Americas” (688-690), in K. Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.