James George Frazer

The Golden Bough

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of the controversial work by Sir James Frazer (1854-1941) applies the techniques of comparative ethnography to classical religion. Volumes 7 and 8 (1912) discuss the relationship of human sacrifice to the fertility of crops.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781108047364
• ISBN-10: 110804736X
• Artikelnr.: 35424786

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Dionysus
2. Demeter and Persephone
3. Magical significance of games in primitive agriculture
4. Woman's part in primitive agriculture
5. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe
6. The Corn-Mother in many lands
7. Lityerses
8. The corn-spirit as an animal
Note.