The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 03 of 12)
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The Golden A Study in Comparative Religion (retitled The Golden A Study in Magic and Religion in its second edition) is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It was first published in two volumes in 1890; in three volumes in 1900; the third edition, published 1906–15, comprised twelve volumes. 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 (1855). Frazer offered a modernist approach t...
Chapters (44)
- Preface.
- Chapter I. The Burden Of Royalty.
- § 1. Royal and Priestly Taboos.
- § 2. Divorce of the Spiritual from the Temporal Power.
- Chapter II. The Perils Of The Soul.
- § 1. The Soul as a Mannikin.
- § 2. Absence and Recall of the Soul.
- § 3. The Soul as a Shadow and a Reflection.
- Chapter III. Tabooed Acts.
- § 1. Taboos on Intercourse with Strangers.
- § 2. Taboos on Eating and Drinking.
- § 3. Taboos on shewing the Face.
- § 4. Taboos on quitting the House.
- § 5. Taboos on leaving Food over.
- Chapter IV. Tabooed Persons.
- § 1. Chiefs and Kings tabooed.
- § 2. Mourners tabooed.
- § 3. Women tabooed at Menstruation and Childbirth.
- § 4. Warriors tabooed.
- § 5. Manslayers tabooed.
- § 6. Hunters and Fishers tabooed.
- Chapter V. Tabooed Things.
- § 1. The Meaning of Taboo.
- § 2. Iron tabooed.
- § 3. Sharp Weapons tabooed.
- § 4. Blood tabooed.
- § 5. The Head tabooed.
- § 6. Hair tabooed.
- § 7. Ceremonies at Hair-cutting.
- § 8. Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails.
- § 9. Spittle tabooed.
- § 10. Foods tabooed.
- § 11. Knots and Rings tabooed.
- Chapter VI. Tabooed Words.
- § 1. Personal Names tabooed.
- § 2. Names of Relations tabooed.
- § 3. Names of the Dead tabooed.
- § 4. Names of Kings and other Sacred Persons tabooed.
- § 5. Names of Gods tabooed.
- § 6. Common Words tabooed.
- Chapter VII. Our Debt To The Savage.
- Note. Not To Step Over Persons And Things.1552
- Index.
- Footnotes
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