James George Frazer

Frazer, Sir James George - 1854–1941, Scottish classicist and anthropologist, b. Glasgow, educated at the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge. He is known especially for his masterpiece, The Golden Bough, published originally in two volumes (1890); in later editions it was enlarged to 13 volumes. A monumental study in comparative folklore, magic, and religion, it showed parallels between Read More...

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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
by James George Frazer. 862 pgs.

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First published in 1890, The Golden Bough is a seminal work of modern anthropology. A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind that traces the development and confluence of thought from magic and ritual to modern scientific theory, it has been a source of great influence upon such diverse writers as T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and D.H. Lawrence. This edition restores many of the controversial passages expurgated in the 1922 edition that elucidate Frazer's bolder theories, and sets them within the framework of a valuable introduction and notes.

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Introduction

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A Chronology of Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941)

Book I: The King of the Wood

Chapter 1: The King of the Wood

Chapter 2: Priestly Kings

Chapter 3: Magic and Religion

Chapter 4: Human Gods

Chapter 5: Departmental Kings of Nature

Chapter 6: The Worship of Trees

Chapter 7: The Sacred Marriage

Chapter 8: The Kings of Rome

Chapter 9: The Succession to the Kingdom

Chapter 10: The Burden of Royalty

Chapter 11: The Perils of the Soul

Chapter 12: Taboos

Book II: Killing the God

Chapter 1: The Mortality of the Gods

Chapter 2: The Killing of the Divine King

Chapter 3: Temporary Kings

Chapter 4: Sacrifice of the King's Son

Chapter 5: The Killing of the Tree-Spirit

Chapter 6: Adonis

Chapter 7: Sacred Prostitution

Chapter 8: The Ritual of Adonis

Chapter 9: Attis

Chapter 10: The Hanged God

Chapter 11: Osiris

Chapter 12: Feasts of All Souls

Chapter 13: Isis

Chapter 14: Mother-Kin and Mother Goddesses

Chapter 15: Dionysus

Chapter 16: Demeter and Persephone

Chapter 17: Woman's Part in Primitive Agriculture

Chapter 18: The Corn-Mother and Corn-Maiden

Chapter 19: Lityerses

Chapter 20: The Corn-Spirit as an Animal

Chapter 21: Eating the God

Chapter 22: The Flesh Diet

Chapter 23: Killing the Divine Animal

Book III: The Scapegoat

Chapter 1: The Transference of Evil

Chapter 2: Ancient Scapegoats

Chapter 3: Killing the God in Mexico

Chapter 4: The Saturnalia

Chapter 5: The Crucifixion of Christ

Book IV: The Golden Bough

Chapter 1: Between Heaven and Earth

Chapter 2: The Seclusion of Girls

Chapter 3: Balder's Fires

Chapter 4: The External Soul

Chapter 5: Death and Resurrection

Chapter 6: The Golden Bough

Explanatory Notes

Index

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Aftermath: A Supplement to the Golden Bough
by James George Frazer. 492 pgs.

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A F T E R M a T H: A Supplement to the Golden Bough

Preface

Contents

Chapter I Magic

Chapter II the Magical Control of the Weather

Chapter III Magicians as Kings

Chapter IV Incarnate Human Gods

Chapter V Departmental Kings of Nature

Chapter VI the Worship of Trees

Chapter VII Relics of Tree-Worship in Europe

Chapter VIII the Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation

Chapter IX the Sacred Marriage

Chapter X the King's Fire

Chapter XI the Fire-Drill

Chapter XII Father Jove and Mother Vesta

Chapter XIII the Origin of Perpetual Fires

Chapter XIV the Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium

Chapter XV St. George and the Parilia

Chapter XVI the Oak

Chapter XVII Dianus and Diana

Chapter XVIII Royal and Priestly Taboos

Chapter XIX the Perils of the Soul

Chapter XX Tabooed Acts

Chapter XXI Tabooed Persons

Chapter XXII Tabooed Things

Chapter XXIII Tabooed Words

Chapter XXIV the Killing of the Divine King

Chapter XXV the Fairy Wife

Chapter XXVI Temporary Kings

Chapter XXVII Sacrifice of the King's Son

Chapter XXVIII Killing the Tree Spirit

Chapter XXIX Swinging as a Magical Rite

Chapter XXX the Myth of Adonis

Chapter XXXI Consecration by Anointing

Chapter XXXII Reincarnation of the Dead

Chapter XXXIII Volcanic Religion

Chapter XXXIV the Gardens of Adonis

Chapter XXXV the Ritual of Attis

Chapter XXXVI Attis as the Father God

Chapter XXXVII on Head-Hunting

Chapter XXXVIII the Tears of Isis

Chapter Xxxix the Star of Isis

Chapter XL Feasts of All Souls

Chapter XLI Mother-Kin and Mother Goddesses

Chapter XLII Marriage of Brothers with Sisters

Chapter XLIII Children of Living Parents in Ritual

Chapter XLIV Blind Victims in Sacrifice

Chapter XLV Men Dressed as Women

Chapter XLVI Children in Winnowing-Fans

Chapter XLVII Magical Significance of Games in Primitive Agriculture

Chapter XLVIII Woman's Part in Primitive Agriculture

Chapter Xlix Personification of the Corn-Spirit at Harvest

Chapter L Human Sacrifices for the Crops

Chapter LI the Corn-Spirit as an Animal

Chapter LII the Pleiades in Primitive Calendars

Chapter LIII a Primitive Form of Purification

Chapter Liv the Maniae at Aricia

Chapter LV Attempts to Deceive Demons

Chapter LVI the Sacrifice of First-Fruits

Chapter LVII Homoeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet

Chapter LVIII the Propitiation of Wild Animals by Hunters

Chapter LIX the Transmigration of Human Souls into Animals

Chapter LX the Transference of Evil

Chapter LXI the Omnipresence of Demons

Chapter LXII the Public Expulsion of Evils

Chapter LXIII Public Scapegoats

Chapter LXIV the Saturnalia and Kindred Festivals

Chapter LXV Not to Touch the Earth

Chapter LXVI Not to See the Sun

Chapter LXVII the Seclusion of Girls at Puberty

Chapter LXVIII the Fire Festivals of Europe

Chapter LXIX Were-Wolves

Chapter LXX the Fire-Walk

Chapter LXXI the Magic Flowers of Midsummer Eve

Chapter LXXII the External Soul in Folk-Tales

Chapter LXXIII the External Soul in Folk-Custom

Chapter LXXIV the Ritual of Death and Resurrection

Chapter LXXV the Mistletoe

Index
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The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion
by James George Frazer. 206 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Lecture I

Lecture II

Lecture III

Lecture IV

Lecture V

Lecture VI

Index
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Folk-Lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend, and Law
by James George Frazer. 482 pgs.

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PREFACE TO THE ABRIDGED EDITION

PREFACE

CONTENTS

Chapter I The Creation of Man

PART I THE EARLY AGES OF THE WORLD

Chapter III The Mark of Cain

Chapter IV The Great Flood

PART II THE PATRIARCHAL AGE

Chapter I The Covenant of Abraham

Chapter III Jacob and the Kidskins or the New Birth

Chapter IV Jacob at Bethel

Chapter V Jacob at the Well

Chapter VI The Covenant on the Cairn

Chapter VII Jacob at the Ford of the Jabbok

Chapter I Moses in the Ark of Bulrushes

PART III THE TIMES OF THE JUDGES AND THE KINGS

Chapter III The Bundle of Life

Chapter V The Sin of a Census

Chapter VI The Keepers of the Threshold

Chapter VII Sacred Oaks and Terebinths

Chapter VIII The High Places of Israel

Chapter IX The Silent Widow

Chapter I The Place of the Law in Jewish History

PART IV THE LAW

Chapter III Cuttings for the Dead

Chapter IV The Ox That Gored

Chapter V The Golden Bells

INDEX
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Magic, Science and Religion: And Other Essays
by Bronislaw Malinowski. 280 pgs.

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Introduction

Magic, Science and Religion

I: Primitive Man and His Religion

II: Rational Mastery by Man of His Surroundings

III: Life, Death, and Destiny in Early Faith and Cult

IV: The Public and Tribal Character Of Primitive Cults

V: The Art of Magic and the Power of Faith

Myth in Primitive Psychology

I: The Role of Myth in Life

II: Myths of Origin

III: Myths of Death and of the Recurrent Cycle of Life

IV: Myths of Magic

V: Conclusion

Baloma; the Spirits of the Dead In the Trobriand Islands1

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Notes
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They Studied Man ("James Frazer: Labor Disguised in Ease" begins on p. 78)
by Abram Kardiner, Edward Preble. 287 pgs.

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Illustrations

Preface

Part 1: The New Dimension: Culture

Introduction

Charles Darwin:: A Second Life

Edward Tylor: Mr. Tylor's Science

James Frazer Labor Disguised in Ease

Emile Durkheim: One Must Choose

Franz Boas: Icy Enthusiasm

Bronislaw Malinowski: The Man of Songs

Alfred Louis Kroeber: Man, Whales, and Bees

Ruth Benedict: Science and Poetry

Part 2: The New Dimension: Man

Introduction

Sigmund Freud Chimney Sweeping

The Influence of Psychodynamics on the Study of Culture

History, Psychology, Culture

Selected Bibliography

Index
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The Study of Culture ("James George Frazer, J. J. Bachofen, Henry Maine, and Others" begins on p. 27)
by L. L. Langness. 266 pgs.

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The Study of Culture: Revised Edition

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Human Science of Human Beings

Chapter I: Degeneration and Progress

Chapter II: Historicalism and Diffusion

Chapter III: Structure and Function

Chapter IV: American Developments

Chapter V: The Ethnographic Present

Chapter VI: Psychological Anthropology

Chapter VII: Behavioral Science and Behavioral Evolution

Glossary

References

Notices of Copyright and Literary Property

Author Index

Subject Index
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Sex, Culture, and Myth (Chap. 12 "On Sir James Frazer")
by Bronislaw Malinowski. 346 pgs.

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Part One: Sex, Family, And Community

1: Marriage

Bibliography

2: The Family: Past and Present

3: Parenthood -- the Basis of Social Structure

4: Aping the Ape; Or, an Anthropologist Looks at The Modern World from His Primitive Cave-Dwelling

5: Pioneers in the Study of Sex and Marriage

6: Kinship

Bibliography

Part Two: Culture And Myth

7: Culture as a Determinant of Behavior

8: Man's Culture and Man's Behavior

References

9: The Group and the Individual In Functional Analysis

10: Myth as a Dramatic Development of Dogma

11: Science and Religion

12: On Sir James Frazer

13: Elementary Forms of Religious Life

14: The Life of Myth

15: The Foundations of Faith and Morals

Preface

Index
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Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism ("The Case of the Missing Abstraction: Eliot, Frazer, and Modernism" begins on p. 110)
by Jewel Spears Brooker. 292 pgs.

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Dispensationalism and the Invention of History

The Dispensations of Art: Mallarmý and the Fallen Reader

"Ole T. E. H.": Pioneer of Modernism

Common Ground and Collaboration in T. S. Eliot

The Mind of Europe: Anxiety, Crisis, and Therapy

The Structure of Eliot's "G0erontion": An Interpretation Based on Bradley's Doctrine of the Systematic Nature of Truth

The Case of the Missing Abstraction: Eliot, Frazer, and Modernism

Substitutes for Religion in the Early Poetry of T. S. Eliot

The Education of T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot and the Revolt Against Dualism: His Dissertation on F. H. Bradley in its Intellectual Context

F. H. Bradley's Doctrine of Experience in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Four Quartets

Modernism and Belligerence

Tradition and Female Enmity: Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar Read T. S. Eliot

Dialectical Pedagogy: Teaching: The Waste Land

"The Second Coming" and The Waste Land: Capstone Texts in the Western Civilization Course

When Love Fails: An Approach to Teaching The Waste Land

Bibliography

Index
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Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions (Discussion of James George Frazer begins on p. 5)
by Catherine Bell. 368 pgs.

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From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self- expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.

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Part I Theories: The History of Interpretation

One Myth or Ritual: Questions of Origin and Essence

Conclusion

Two Ritual and Society: Questions of Social Function and Structure

Conclusion

Three Ritual Symbols, Syntax, and Praxis: Questions of Cultural Meaning and interpretation

Conclusion

Part II Rices: The Spectrum of Ritual Activities

Four Basic Genres of Ritual Action

Conclusion

Five Characteristics of Ritual-like Activities

Conclusion

Part III Contexts: The Fabric of Ritual Life

Six Ritual Density

Conclusion

Seven Ritual Change

Conclusion

Eight Ritual Reification

Conclusion

Notes

References

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