Author of Audiobooks - James FRAZER
The Golden Bough - James FRAZER
The Golden Bough - James FRAZER
- Author: James FRAZER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It offered a modernist approach, discussing religion...
The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1 - James FRAZER
The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1 - James FRAZER
- Author: James FRAZER
- Genre: Reference / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Other religions
The first volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. Topics covered include extensive discussion on the belief in sympathetic and contagious magic, magical influence on the environment, magicians and...
The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 2 - James FRAZER
The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 2 - James FRAZER
- Author: James FRAZER
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Other religions
The second volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. The superstition and magical purpose of kings is further discussed alongside the worship of trees, vegetation, fire, and the sacred marriages, and...
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 2. Taboo and the Perils of the Soul - James FRAZER
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 2. Taboo and the Perils of the Soul - James FRAZER
- Author: James FRAZER
- Genre: Religion / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The third volume of The Golden Bough. The term Taboo is one of the very few words which the English language has borrowed from the speech of savages. This volume examines the underlying moral code of many societies, both primitive and medieval, and...
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 3. The Dying God - James FRAZER
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 3. The Dying God - James FRAZER
- Author: James FRAZER
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Other religions
The fourth volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. With this third part of The Golden Bough we take up the question, why had the King of the Wood at Nemi regularly to perish by the hand of his...