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Author: Robert Ackerman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521398251 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 374
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Sir James G. Frazer's The Golden Bough, first published in 1890, was the first work in English to understand the religion of classical antiquity in the context of primitive religion. Its dramatic impact on the history of ideas lasted well into the twentieth century, in its association of religious myths with the more primitive forms of ritual and magic generated by the 'savage mind', identified as a common misunderstanding of the scientific laws governing the natural world. This highly acclaimed biography is a comprehensive study of Frazer's life, the influences on his work, and its wide-ranging implications for modern anthropology, classics, cultural history and folklore.
Author: Robert Ackerman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521398251 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 374
Book Description
Sir James G. Frazer's The Golden Bough, first published in 1890, was the first work in English to understand the religion of classical antiquity in the context of primitive religion. Its dramatic impact on the history of ideas lasted well into the twentieth century, in its association of religious myths with the more primitive forms of ritual and magic generated by the 'savage mind', identified as a common misunderstanding of the scientific laws governing the natural world. This highly acclaimed biography is a comprehensive study of Frazer's life, the influences on his work, and its wide-ranging implications for modern anthropology, classics, cultural history and folklore.
Author: Phyllis Kaberry Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134362633 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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First published in 1939 by Routledge, this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is - a complex social personality with her own prerogatives, duties, problems, beliefs, rituals and point of view. This groundbreaking and enduring study was researched in North-West Australia between 1935 and 1936 and was written by a woman who truly pioneered the study of gender in anthropology
Author: Michael M Nikoletseas Publisher: MICHAEL NIKOLETSEAS ISBN: 1482069008 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 155
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This is a truly ground breaking analysis of Homer's Iliad. The author, a natural scientist, embarks on a journey through this eternal masterpiece employing an arsenal of conceptual tools from Anthropology (ethnology), Ethology, Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, and Philosophy. A terrifying and at the same time tender look into the darkness of the male soul. Seldom has Homer emerged so majestic and insightful. A landmark in Homeric scholarship. The new concept of the male totem that this book creates is destined to provide insights into the pressing problems our world faces today, for example, conflict of Islam with western ideas, Sharia, and Jihad.
Author: Valerio Valeri Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 9780299162146 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 540
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Contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, to show the attractions of the animal world which invades the human world in many ways.
Author: James George Frazer Publisher: ISBN: 9781332205349 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 536
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Excerpt from Totemica: A Supplement to Totemism and Exogamy Since the publication of my book Totenism and Exogamy in 1910, much fresh information on the subject has been collected in various parts of the world by many enquirers well fitted by their training and abilities to do justice to the theme. In this volume I have endeavoured to present to the reader a clear view of the principal results of their researches, arranged in a roughly geographical order. Beginning with Australia, the classical land of Totemism, I shall ask the reader to follow me through Melanesia to New Guinea, thence on to India and Africa. Finally we shall end in America, from which our first knowledge of the name and institution of Totemism was derived. The stream of new information has flowed chiefly from Australia, hence I have been led to treat Australian evidence at much greater length than any other part of my subject, but not at greater length, I hope, than the importance of the new matter deserves; for it is to Australia, with its varied and very primitive forms of Totemism, that we must ultimately look, if we are ever to find a clue to the problem of the origin and meaning of the institution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: MARIALUISA STORNAIUOLO Publisher: Venexia Editrice ISBN: 8897688861 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 72
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Il culto alla Dea. Scritti di Momolina Marconi. Un’antologia di saggi per ricordare la maggiore studiosa italiana di divinità , miti, riti e simboli del mondo mediterraneo prepatriarcale, dalle sue radici nella Colchide alla letteratura fantastica medievale.
Author: Robert Ackerman
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