The Golden Bough edition by James George Frazer Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes. Frazer offered a modernist approach to discussing religion, treating it dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon rather than from a theological perspective. The influence of The Golden Bough on contemporary European literature and thought was substantial.
The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief to scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat and many other symbols and practices whose influence has extended into twentieth-century culture.[3] Its thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.
This thesis was developed in relation to J. M. W. Turner's painting of The Golden Bough, a sacred grove where a certain tree grew day and night. It was a transfigured landscape in a dream-like vision of the woodland lake of Nemi, "Diana's Mirror", where religious ceremonies and the "fulfillment of vows" of priests and kings were held. The king was the incarnation of a dying and reviving god, a solar deity who underwent a mystic marriage to a goddess of the Earth. He died at the harvest and was reincarnated in the spring. Frazer claims that this legend of rebirth is central to almost all of the world's mythologies.
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The Golden Bough edition by James George Frazer Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
This is not a "review" of the classic "Golden Bough." This is a review of several hardback editions available to the collector which are complimentary to each other's content and pagination. The purchaser may wish to take care in selecting which edition of the Golden Bough they consider for purchase. Several hardbound editions exist.
The most common edition is the 2-volume abridged 4th edition,this is the edition supervised by Graves widow; it is woefully incomplete. It is to the 3rd Edition that most collectors will want to turn. The 3rd edition has twelve volumes, and a 1-volume afterward, which, when assembled look rather like a set of encyclopedias. There have been twelve reliable and interchangable printings from 1911 to 1990 which may allow the collector the opportunity to assemble a complete set of mis-matching volumes, as I have done, spending less than $240 to assemble the entire series, or averaging less than $20.00 a volume. The original publishers to look for are MacMillan & Co. and St. Martin's Press. One cannot vouch for the print accuracy of the plethora of "On Demand" editions, I avoid them after a couple bad experiences with other titles.
The numbering on these volumes is sometimes confusing-- The on-line seller's lists always get them wrong, so you may want to do a general search for "Frazer" "Golden Bough Part" and compare the listing to the contents below (as printed on the dust jacket back of the 1990 edition)
The 13 books are divided into 9 parts
Part I Vols. 1 & 2, The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings
Part II Taboo and The Perils of the Soul
Part III The Dying God
Part IV Adonis, Attis Osiris Vols. 1 & 2
Part V Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild Vols. 1&2
Part VI The Scapegoat
Part VII Balder the Beautiful The Fire Festivals of Europe and
The Doctrine of the External Soul
Part VIII Bibliography and General Index
Part IX Aftermath A Supplement to "The Golden Bough."
These books ought to be required reading to any student of religion, history, sociology, and occult sciences.
The print was so small that its difficult to read. This has nothying to do with the contents that I remember from many years back. It is a classic. I don't recall the print size mentioned on the book blurb by you.
The print (6pt) is too small (I have 20/20).
This is a great kindle edition! Especially as the FULL table of contents is available from the sidebar to allow easy search of topics and chapters. Thank you SMK!
My go to of go tos- definitely better than dragging around the set!
I'm not entirely sure what the publisher means by "DirectLink Technology," but there is no working table of contents, and I saw no links. For a book of this size, that's essential. However, the most significant issue is the enjambment of the paragraphs. There is no initial indent for each paragraph, nor is there a space between paragraphs. The text became unreadable after about five pages.
Download another version. I recommend the Ignacio Hills Press version.
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I got my Money's worth with this lengthy Study of Religion and Mythology
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