The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and ReligionSir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a broad comparative study of mythology and religion. Treating religion as a cultural phenomenon rather than discussing it from a theological perspective, the effect of The Golden Bough on both European literature and the emerging discipline of anthropology was substantial. The pioneering anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski said of it: "No sooner had I read this great work than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frazer, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact studies and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology." |
Contents
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VI Magicians as Kings | 201 |
VII Incarnate Human Gods | 220 |
XXXVI Human Representatives of Attis | 833 |
XXXVII Oriental Religions in the West | 839 |
XXXVIII The Myth of Osiris | 853 |
XXXIX The Ritual of Osiris | 867 |
XL The Nature of Osiris | 888 |
XLI Isis | 899 |
XLII Osiris and the Sun | 904 |
XLIII Dionysus | 908 |
VIII Departmental Kings of Nature | 256 |
IX The Worship of Trees | 264 |
X Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe | 289 |
XI The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation | 324 |
XII The Sacred Marriage | 334 |
XIII The Kings of Rome and Alba | 350 |
XIV The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium | 363 |
XV The Worship of the Oak | 380 |
XVI Dianus and Diana | 387 |
XVII The Burden of Royalty | 402 |
XVIII The Perils of the Soul | 426 |
XIX Tabooed Acts | 463 |
XX Tabooed Persons | 482 |
XXI Tabooed Things | 530 |
XXII Tabooed Words | 578 |
XXIII Our Debt to the Savage | 620 |
XXIV The Killing of the Divine King | 625 |
XXV Temporary Kings | 669 |
XXVI Sacrifice of the Kings Son | 682 |
XXVII Succession to the Soul | 691 |
XXVIII The Killing of the TreeSpirit | 697 |
XXIX The Myth of Adonis | 761 |
XXX Adonis in Syria | 771 |
XXXI Adonis in Cyprus | 776 |
XXXII The Ritual of Adonis | 790 |
XXXIII The Gardens of Adonis | 803 |
XXXIV The Myth and Ritual of Attis | 817 |
XXXV Attis as a God of Vegetation | 829 |
XLIV Demeter and Persephone | 925 |
XLV The CornMother and the CornMaiden in Northern Europe | 939 |
XLVI The CornMother in Many Lands | 969 |
XLVII Lityerses | 997 |
XLVIII The CornSpirit as an Animal | 1050 |
XLIX Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals | 1089 |
L Eating the God | 1124 |
LI Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet | 1157 |
LII Killing the Divine Animal | 1169 |
LIII The Propitiation of Wild Animals by Hunters | 1212 |
LIV Types of Animal Sacrament | 1244 |
LV The Transference of Evil | 1260 |
LVI The Public Expulsion of Evils | 1278 |
LVII Public Scapegoats | 1314 |
LVIII Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity | 1350 |
LIX Killing the God in Mexico | 1372 |
LX Between Heaven and Earth | 1385 |
LXI The Myth of Balder | 1420 |
LXII The FireFestivals of Europe | 1424 |
LXIII The Interpretation of the FireFestivals | 1498 |
LXIV The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires | 1519 |
LXV Balder and the Mistletoe | 1538 |
LXVI The External Soul in FolkTales | 1559 |
LXVII The External Soul in FolkCustom | 1585 |
LXVIII The Golden Bough | 1635 |
LXIX Farewell to Nemi | 1658 |
Endnotes | 1666 |
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Common terms and phrases
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