Publications

Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion Fourth edition published in 1996   Articles Aggression, Bravery, Endurance, & Drugs: A Radical reevaluation & Analysis of the Masai Warrior Complex     Tourists, Black Markets and Regional Development in West Africa

Arthur C. Lehmann published his first book in 1985, titled Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural. With contributions from Anthropologists Marvin Harris, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Claude Levi-Strauss, Dr. Lehmann elevates the reader into the realm of anthropological theory. Thus, demystifying the strange while provoking students to investigate their own religious belief systems and to compare those systems with others outside their culture (1985:vii). As well as, compiling works for this reader, Dr. Lehmann also contributed the excellent article, Eyes of the Ngangas: Ethnomedicine and Power in Central African Republic. In the article He focuses on the Naganas, traditional healers of the Aka Pygmy hunters and their neighbors the Ngando, both of Central African Republic. Dr. Lehmann looks at the use of ethnomedical or traditional treatment as opposed to the use of Western therapies and points out "the necessity of recognizing and treating the social as well as the biological aspects of illness and appeals to health care planners to establish...[and] improve primary health care in the Third World" (1985:138).