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Book The Golden Bough

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  • Author : Sir James George Frazer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1932
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

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Book The Mythology in Our Language

Download or read book The Mythology in Our Language written by Ludwig Wittgenstein and published by Hau. This book was released on 2015 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, anthropology had something to offer philosophy. It was a time when Continential thinkers drew on anthropology's theoretical terms—mana, taboo, potlatch—in order to reflect on the limits of human belief and imagination. Among these philosophic dialogues with anthropology, we find Ludwig Wittgenstein's Remarks on Sir James Frazer's magnum opus, The Golden Bough. Now, Hau Books brings you the first translation by an anthropology—Stephan Palmié—of this masterpiece. Wittgenstein's remarks on ritual, magic, religion, belief, ceremony, and Frazer's own logical presuppositions are as lucid and thought-provoking now as they were over half-a-century ago. Anthropologists find themselves repeating many of Wittgenstein's same questions and confronting similar doubts today: Is metaphysics a kind of magic? What do we call “ritual”? Are humans simply “ceremonial animals”? This book is not only a fresh translation, but a fresh set of engagements with Wittgenstein's ideas from some of the world's most brilliant anthropologists. Contributors include: David Graeber, Veena Das, Michael Lambek, Heonik Kwon, Carlo Severi, Michael Taussig, Wendy James, Giovanni da Col, and Michael Puett. Here is a unique and well-overdue discussion of the mythologies in our language. Taking interdisciplinarity seriously, this volume returns to the ethnographic imagination that made great thinkers like Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, and indeed Ludwig Wittgenstein take heed—and returns the favor to the philosophical tradition that found wonder and pause for thought in the anthropological canon.

Book Bemerkungen   ber Frazers Golden Bough

Download or read book Bemerkungen ber Frazers Golden Bough written by Ludwig Wittgenstein and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Killing the god  cont d  The golden bough

Download or read book Killing the god cont d The golden bough written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Bough

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  • Author : James George Frazer
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  • Release : 1955
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Bough

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  • Author : James George Frazer
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2022-10-27
  • ISBN : 9781017043419
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Muhammad and the Golden Bough

Download or read book Muhammad and the Golden Bough written by Jaroslav Stetkevych and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His articles on classical and modern Arabic literature have appeared in Spanish, English, Arabic, and Ukrainian.ContentsIntroduction: Reclaiming Arabian MythThe Textual PuzzleThe Thamudic Backdrop to the PuzzleThe First Answer to the Puzzle: The Raid on TabukThe Totem and the TabooPoeticizing the ThamudDemythologizing the ThamudThe ScreamThe Arabian Golden Bough and Kindred Branches: Frazer, Vergil, Homer, and GilgameshConclusion

Book Wittgenstein   s Remarks on Frazer

Download or read book Wittgenstein s Remarks on Frazer written by Lars Albinus and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Wittgenstein's remarks on Frazer's The Golden Bough and represents a collaboration of scholars within philosophy and the study of religion. For the first time, specialized investigations of the philological and philosophical aspects Wittgenstein's manuscripts are combined with the outlook of philosophical anthropology and ritual studies. In the first section of the book Wittgenstein's remarks are presented and discussed in light of his Nachlass and relevant lecture-notes by G.E. Moore, reproduced in this book as facsimiles. The second section deals with the cultural and philosophical background of the early remarks, while the third section focuses specifically on the general problem of understanding as being a main issue of these remarks. The fourth section concentrates on the philosophical development characteristic of the later remarks. Finally, the fifth section reviews Wittgenstein's opposition to Frazer, and the ramifications of his remarks, in light of ritual studies. The book is intended for scholars in philosophy and religious studies, as well as for the general reader with an academic interest in philosophy and the philosophy of religion.

Book The Dying God

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  • Author : J. G. Frazer
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2019-03-07
  • ISBN : 9780530430645
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book The Dying God written by J. G. Frazer and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Golden Bough

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  • Author : James George Frazer
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780192835413
  • Pages : 916 pages

Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1890, The Golden Bough is a seminal work of modern anthropology. A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind that traces the development and confluence of thought from magic and ritual to modern scientific theory, it has been a source of great influence upon such diverse writers as T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and D.H. Lawrence. This edition restores many of the controversial passages expurgated in the 1922 edition that elucidate Frazer's bolder theories, and sets them within the framework of a valuable introduction and notes.

Book The Golden Bough

Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Bough is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The book documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe. Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His 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. The influence of The Golden Bough on contemporary European literature and thought is substantial.

Book The Golden Bough

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  • Author : Sir James George Frazer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 782 pages

Download or read book The Golden Bough written by Sir James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Illustrated Golden Bough

Download or read book The Illustrated Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Bough

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  • Author : James George Frazer
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-05-18
  • ISBN : 9781512267716
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Frazer's monumental study of world mythology and folklore has been a controversial work for over a century. The Golden Bough is "a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs" and essential reading for anyone interested in mythology, supernatural magic or religion, especially modern neo-pagan practices. More than one critic has said that it should be required reading for everyone. "To read [The Golden Bough] is to share in the adventure of mankind's cultural Odyssey and to undergo an enlargement of one's own sympathy and understanding for one's fellow beings...It is a book to be read and reread." -- Ashley Montagu. This Enhanced Media edition is based on Frazer's single volume 1922 edition.

Book A Century of James Frazer   s The Golden Bough

Download or read book A Century of James Frazer s The Golden Bough written by Stephanie Lynn Budin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough in modern Humanities and its wide-ranging influence across studies of ancient religions, literature, historiography, and reception studies. The book begins by exploring the life and times of Frazer himself and the writing of The Golden Bough in its cultural milieu. It then goes on to cover a wide range of topics, including: ancient Near Eastern religion and culture; Minoan religion and in particular the origins of notions of Minoan matriarchy; Frazer’s influence on the study of Graeco-Roman religion and magic; Frazer’s influence on modern Pagan religions; and the effects of Frazer’s works in modern culture and scholarship generally. Chapters examine how modern academia and beyond continues to be influenced by the otherwise discredited theories in The Golden Bough, ideas such as Sacred Marriage and the incessant Fertility of Everything. The book demonstrates how scholarship within the Humanities as well as practitioners of alternative religions and the common public remain under the thrall of Frazer over one hundred years since the publication of the abridged edition of The Golden Bough, and what we must do to shake off that influence. A Century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough is of interest to scholars and students from a wide range of disciplines, including Ancient History, History of Religion, Comparative Religion, Classical Studies, Archaeology, Historiography, Anthropology, Folklore, and Reception Studies.

Book The Illustrated Golden Bough

Download or read book The Illustrated Golden Bough written by Sir James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern abridgement of Sir James Frazer's 1925 one-volume version of his longer multi-volume work on "the study of magic and origins of religion" from an anthropological viewpoint.

Book The Golden Bough

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  • Author : James George Frazer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 806 pages

Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Golden Bough" describes our ancestors' primitive methods of worship, sex practices, strange rituals and festivals. Disproving the popular thought that primitive life was simple, this monumental survey shows that savage man was enmeshed in a tangle of magic, taboos, and superstitions. Revealed here is the evolution of man from savagery to civilization, from the modification of his weird and often bloodthirsty customs to the entry of lasting moral, ethical, and spiritual values."--Goodreads.com