A Century of James Frazer's The Golden Bough (eBook, PDF)

Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough
Redaktion: Budin, Stephanie Lynn; Tully, Caroline J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G. Frazer's The Golden Bough in modern Humanities and its wide-ranging influence across studies of ancient religions, literature, historiography and reception studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040183045
• Artikelnr.: 72253717

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Lynn Budin is an ancient historian specializing in Greece and the Near East. She has published numerous books and articles on sex, gender, mythology, religion, and iconography, including Freewomen, Patriarchal Authority, and the Accusation of Prostitution (Routledge 2021) and Artemis (Routledge 2016). She considers herself to be the world expert on non-existent prostitution. Caroline J. Tully is an archaeologist and curator. Her research interests include religion and ritual in the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, Reception of the Ancient World, and Contemporary Paganisms. She is the author of many articles on ancient religion as well as the book The Cultic Life of Trees in the Prehistoric Aegean, Levant, Egypt, and Cyprus, and she is curator of the exhibit "Amor et Mors: Vessels for the Beautiful Body in Life and Death" at the Ian Potter Museum of Art.

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Introduction; Preliminaries; 1. The Golden Bough: setting the
scene - Tim Parkin; 2. Sir James Frazer and The Golden Bough - Ronald
Hutton; 3. "Off With His Head!": Wilhelm Mannhardt's Wald- und Feldkulte
at the Roots of The Golden Bough - Frederico Delgado Rosa; 4. The Golden
Bough and the Press - Julia Phillips; 5. Hypothesis as Theory: The Golden
Bough and the Obstinate Nostrums in Religious Studies and the Humanities -
Ryan C. Chester; Ancient Near East; 6. Itar's Sexual Agency in Akkadian
Love Literature - Martti Nissinen; 7. Dying and Rising Gods in Ancient
Mesopotamian Religion and the Frazerian Paradigm of Fertility Religion -
JoAnn Scurlock; 8. The Fads that Drive Us: From Frazer, Freud, and Foucault
to Butler and Connell - Stephanie Lynn Budin; 9. The Hebrew Bible
Scapegoat: Complicating a Frazerian Typology - Caroline Ward Smith; Aegean
and Classical; 10. Embracing the Goddess: Evans and the Minoan feminine
divine - Christine Morris; 11. Guess Who's Back, Back Again? Graeber and
Wengrow's Resurrection of Minoan Matriarchy in 'The Dawn of Everything' -
Stephen O'Brien; 12. Same same, but different: Frazer's Sympathetic Law of
Similarity and the study of Greco-Roman defixiones - Saskia Moorrees; 13.
Reading about Nymphs and Roman Soldiers with and without Frazer - Isabel
Köster; Pagan Studies; 14. Surviving Frazerisms: twenty-first century
Witchcraft and the eternal return - Helen Cornish; 15. Moon and Huntress:
Frazer's Arician Diana in Italian-American Witchcraft - Caroline J. Tully;
16. Lilith from Demoness to Mother Goddess: a Frazerian legacy in French
Luciferian Wicca? - Vanessa Toupin-Lavallée; 17. Contemporary Tree Lore and
the Ancient Worship of Trees: The Contributions of James Frazer in the
Contemporary Study of Religion and Ecology - Ive Brissman; 18. Derivative
and Associative Popular Frazerism: A Cultural Complex at Work in Late
Modern Europe - Alessandro Testa; 19. Frazer and the Magical Oath - Fritz
Lampe; Coda; 20. - Robert Fraser.