Auteur: Sir James George Frazer

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A certain sacred tree was forbidden to the touch, save only for runaway slaves: if the slave could break off a branch — The Golden Bough — he could challenge the tree’s attendant priest t …

Sir James George Frazer developed an affinity for classic literature at a young age, which developed into a very real talent through his schooling at Glasgow University and then Trinity College at Ca …

Sir James George Frazer developed an affinity for classic literature at a young age, which developed into a very real talent through his schooling at Glasgow University and then Trinity College at Ca …

The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief. Its thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship of, and periodic sacrifice of, a sa …

The primary aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years …

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This ‘abridged’ edition is huge — the equivalent of 10 books the size of Tom Sawyer. The first edition, published 1890, was 2 volumes. The second, published in 1900, was 3 volumes. The third edition …

Before Joseph Campbell became the world’s most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but F …

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Frazer’s The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, is an authoritative comparative study on religion and mythology. Das E-Book The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion wird angeboten vo …

Esta nueva edición, compendiada enteramente a partir de los doce volúmenes de la primera publicación completa de la obra (1906-1915), restituye los pasajes censurados en el resumen de 1922 y en sus e …

J. G. Frazer explica en esta selección de su obra fundamental, ‘La rama dorada: magia y religión’, que existen leyes generales del pensamiento primitivo que se han transmitido hasta nuestros días baj …

Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, is a compendium of Greek myths and heroic legends, arranged in three books, generally dated to the first or second century AD. The Bibliotheca has been called ‘the …

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