The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion 9781847675347
The authoritative 1890 edition with an introduction by Cairns Craig and Frazer’s own afterword. Published originally in
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English Year 2009
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- James George Frazer
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- Commentary
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Table of contents :
Introduction
Preface
Chapter One: The King of the Wood
The Arician Grove
Primitive Man and the Supernatural
Incarnate Gods
Tree-Worship
Tree-Worship in Antiquity
Chapter Two: The Perils of the Soul
Royal and Priestly Taboos
The Nature of the Soul
Royal and Priestly Taboos
Chapter Three: Killing the God
Killing the Divine King
Killing the Tree-Spirit
Carrying out Death
Adonis
Attis
Osiris
Dionysus
Demeter and Proserpine
Lityerses
The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
Eating the God
Killing the Divine Animala
Transference of Evil
Expulsion of Evils
Scapegoats
Killing the God in Mexico
Chapter Four: The Golden Bough
Between Heaven and Earth
Balder
The External Soul in Folk-tales
The External Soul in Folk-custom
Conclusion
Note: Offerings of First-fruits
Appendix One: Totemism
Appendix Two: The Origin of Totemism
Appendix Three: The Scope of Social Anthropology
Appendix Four: from The Worship of Nature
Index
