J. G. Frazer

The Golden Bough (eBook, ePUB)

A Study in Comparative Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

The authoritative 1890 edition with an introduction by Cairns Craig and Frazer's own afterword. Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic led Scottish anthropologist J.G. Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures. His observations on the mysteries of fertility and death, and the rites of the sacrificial king who must die to save his people, overturned much of contemporary intellectual thinking, not least because of the enlightening or 'heretical' parallels it suggested with the Christian religion. Frazer's elegant and authoritative style, and the breadth of his learning inspired a whole generation of ethnographers and comparative anthropologists, and had a particularly powerful effect on many other thinkers and writers such as Sigmund Freud, D.H. Lawrence, Joyce, Yeats and T.S. Eliot. This definitive volume includes the unabridged original 1890 edition as well as several essays and lectures by Frazer. 'Frazer's work has epic scale yet mesmerizing fineness of detail. We see the great structures of civilization forming and melting against a background of elemental mystery. The effect is cinematic and sublime.' Camille Paglia

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847675347
• Artikelnr.: 38357132

Autorenporträt

J. G. Frazer (1854-1941) was born and educated in Glasgow, where he attended the University before going to Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1871 he became a Classics Fellow at Trinity. He was knighted in 1914. He translated work from Greek and wrote fiction, but he is best known as a pioneer of social anthropology and comparative ethnography. Although he has many other titles to his name, none were to have the wide-ranging social and imaginative impact of The Golden Bough (first published in 1890).

Inhaltsangabe

The King of the Wood Priestly Kings Sympathetic Magic Magic and Religion The Magical Control of the Weather Magicians as Kings Incarnate Human Gods Departmental Kings of Nature The Worship of Trees Relics of Tree-Worship in Modern Europe The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation The Sacred Marriage The Kings of Rome and Alba The Succession to the Kingdom The Worship of the Oak Dianus and Diana The Burden of Royality The Perils of the Soul Tabooed Acts Tabooed Persons Tabooed Things Tabooed Words Our Debt to the Savage The Killing of the Divine King Temporary Kings Sacrifice of the King's Son Succession to the Soul The Killing of the Tree-Spirit The Myth of Adonis Adonis in Syria Adonis in Cyprus The Ritual of Adonis The Gardens of Adonis The Myth and Ritual of Attis Attis as a God of Vegetation Human Representatives of Attis Oriental Religions in the West The Myth of Osiris The Ritual of Osiris The Nature of Osiris Isis Osiris and the Sun Dionysus Demeter and Persephone The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe The Corn-Mother in Many Lands Lityerses The Corn-Spirt as an Animal Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals Eating the God Homoeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet Killing the Devine Animal The Propitiation of Wild Animals by Hunters Types of Animal Sacrament The Transference of Evil The Public Expulsion of Evils Public Scapegoats Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity Killing the God in Mexico Between Heaven and Earth The Myth of Balder The Fire-Festivals of Europe The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires Balder and the Mistletoe The External Soul in Folk-Tales The External Soul in Folk-Custom The Golden Bough Farewell to Nemi Index

Rezensionen

'In the condensed volume which lies before us we can grasp the masterly plan of the whole work; the mind is fascinated by the author's skill as a constructive thinker and a framer of concepts, and also as a compiler of picturesque detail.' - Spectator

'...equally remarkable for its vast assembly of facts and its unusual charm of presentation. Few men of such learning have written more attractively.' - George Sampson, Concise Cambridge History of English Literature

'A classic; theoretically outmoded, but still informative, stimulating and highly readable.' - Maurice Freedman and I. Schapera, Reader's Guide