Authors: James George Frazer
ISBN-13: 9781605209364, ISBN-10: 1605209368
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Date Published: December 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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St. Martin's Press has for some time now accepted the noble mission of keeping Frazer's (1854-1941) seminal work (essentially a transhistoric, comparative anthropology of folklore, magic, and religion) before the public in the complete and original form of its third edition (originally published in London by Macmillan, 1911-1915), rather than the ubiquitous abridgments which debase both the subject and the author's magisterial command of his materials and his art. Contrary to opinion from some corners, this is no relic--in the complete form presented here, it is nothing less than a window through which the modern world can watch its own emergence--a work worthy of the company of, say, Marx and Freud. Which makes the publication on acidic paper an egregious error--depriving the account of the endurance it deserves. (RC) Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | ||
Note on the Text | ||
Select Bibliography | ||
A Chronology of Sir James George Frazer | ||
Bk. I | The King of the Wood | |
1 | The King of the Wood | 9 |
2 | Priestly Kings | 22 |
3 | Magic and Religion | 26 |
4 | Human Gods | 60 |
5 | Departmental Kings of Nature | 77 |
6 | The Worship of Trees | 82 |
7 | The Sacred Marriage | 98 |
8 | The Kings of Rome | 114 |
9 | The Succession to the Kingdom | 122 |
10 | The Burden of Royalty | 134 |
11 | The Perils of the Soul | 153 |
12 | Taboos | 166 |
Bk. II | Killing the God | |
1 | The Mortality of the Gods | 223 |
2 | The Killing of the Divine King | 228 |
3 | Temporary Kings | 254 |
4 | Sacrifice of the King's Son | 261 |
5 | The Killing of the Tree-Spirit | 273 |
6 | Adonis | 300 |
7 | Sacred Prostitution | 320 |
8 | The Ritual of Adonis | 331 |
9 | Attis | 346 |
10 | The Hanged God | 353 |
11 | Osiris | 366 |
12 | Feasts of All Souls | 375 |
13 | Isis | 387 |
14 | Mother-kin and Mother Goddesses | 390 |
15 | Dionysus | 396 |
16 | Demeter and Persephone | 405 |
17 | Woman's Part in Primitive Agriculture | 411 |
18 | The Corn-Mother and Corn-Maiden | 417 |
19 | Lityerses | 435 |
20 | The Corn-Spirit as an Animal | 455 |
21 | Eating the God | 498 |
22 | The Flesh Diet | 511 |
23 | Killing the Divine Animal | 521 |
Bk. III | The Scapegoat | |
1 | The Transference of Evil | 557 |
2 | Ancient Scapegoats | 591 |
3 | Killing the God in Mexico | 607 |
4 | The Saturnalia | 630 |
5 | The Crucifixion of Christ | 666 |
Bk. IV | The Golden Bough | |
1 | Between Heaven and Earth | 679 |
2 | The Seclusion of Girls | 686 |
3 | Balder's Fires | 706 |
4 | The External Soul | 750 |
5 | Death and Resurrection | 785 |
6 | The Golden Bough | 794 |
Explanatory Notes | 809 | |
Index | 843 |