Author: James George Frazer
Publisher: General Books LLC
Keywords: bough, golden
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2009-08-18
List price: $9.17
ISBN-10: 0217891985
ISBN-13: 9780217891981

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sins of the dying man in consideration of the sum of ten thousand rupees. Thus prepared to immolate himself on the altar of duty as a vicarious sacrifice for sin, the saint is introduced into the chamber of death, and closely embraces the dying rajah, saying to him, " O King, I undertake to bear all your sins and diseases. May your Highness live long and reign happily." Having thus, with a noble devotion, taken

Author: James George Frazer
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: religion, magic, study, bough, golden
Number of Pages: 732
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1605209368
ISBN-13: 9781605209364

In 1890, James George Frazer began publishing The Golden Bough, his monumental study of myth, ritual, and religion, which would, by 1936, run to 13 volumes and establish him as a pioneer in the study of religion as an aspect of culture. This abridged edition, assembled in 1922, condenses this fundamental work to one readable volume that is still a source for modern anthropology, thanks to its expansive discussions ancient cultish practices and their connections to the rites of modern Christianity. In eloquent prose, Frazer discusses legends of the woods, sympathetic magic, magicians as

Author: Sir James George Frazer
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: volume, bough, golden
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0554369311
ISBN-13: 9780554369310

Author: Sir James George Frazer
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Keywords: adonis, attis, osiris, volume, part, religion, bough, study, magic, golden
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-11-22
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 1402131844
ISBN-13: 9781402131844

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1922 edition by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London. Third edition, revised and enlarged. In two volumes.

Author: Sir James George Frazer
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: volumes, four, vol, exogamy, totemism
Number of Pages: 602
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1605209783
ISBN-13: 9781605209784

This classic four-volume series-from a pioneering ethnographer, first published in 1910-remains a foundational work of comparative mythology and religion for scholars and armchair anthropologists alike. Exploring the interconnections between myth and ritual in how and whom we may marry-as group marriage gave way to individual marriage-questions about religion and social structure became intertwined. In any case, this is a fascinating look at the social underpinnings common to all peoples around the globe. Volume I features a reprint of Frazer’s groundbreaking 1887 work Totemism-coveri

Author: Sir James George Frazer
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: four, volumes, iii, vol, exogamy, totemism
Number of Pages: 596
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1605209805
ISBN-13: 9781605209807

This classic four-volume series-from a pioneering ethnographer, first published in 1910-remains a foundational work of comparative mythology and religion for scholars and armchair anthropologists alike. Exploring the interconnections between myth and ritual in how and whom we may marry-as group marriage gave way to individual marriage-questions about religion and social structure became intertwined. In any case, this is a fascinating look at the social underpinnings common to all peoples around the globe. Volume III continues Frazer’s ethnographic survey of totemism, here covering tot

Author: Sir James George Frazer
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: volumes, four, vol, exogamy, totemism
Number of Pages: 652
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 1605209791
ISBN-13: 9781605209791

This classic four-volume series-from a pioneering ethnographer, first published in 1910-remains a foundational work of comparative mythology and religion for scholars and armchair anthropologists alike. Exploring the interconnections between myth and ritual in how and whom we may marry-as group marriage gave way to individual marriage-questions about religion and social structure became intertwined. In any case, this is a fascinating look at the social underpinnings common to all peoples around the globe. Volume II continues Frazer’s ethnographic survey of totemism, here covering tote