The Golden Bough by James George Frazer

The Golden Bough by James George Frazer

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Zusammenfassung

This greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911–15) of the controversial work by Sir James Frazer (1854–1941) applies the techniques of comparative ethnography to classical religion. Volumes 7 and 8 (1912) discuss the relationship of human sacrifice to the fertility of crops.

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The Golden Bough by James George Frazer

This work by Sir James Frazer (1854–1941) is widely considered to be one of the most important early texts in the fields of psychology and anthropology. At the same time, by applying modern methods of comparative ethnography to the classical world, and revealing the superstition and irrationality beneath the surface of the classical culture which had for so long been a model for Western civilisation, it was extremely controversial. Frazer was greatly influenced by E. B. Tylor's Primitive Culture (also reissued in this series) and by the work of the biblical scholar William Robertson Smith, to whom the first edition is dedicated. The twelve-volume third edition, reissued here, was greatly revised and enlarged, and published between 1911 and 1915; the two-volume first edition (1890) is also available in this series. Volumes 7 and 8 (1912) discuss the relationship of human sacrifice to the fertility of crops.
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ISBN 13 9781108047364
ISBN 10 110804736X
Titel The Golden Bough
Autor James George Frazer
Serie Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2012-04-26
Seitenanzahl 342
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