The illustrated golden bough : a study in magic and religion / by James George Frazer ; abridged by Robert K. G. Temple.
By: Frazer, James George
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Contributor(s): Temple, Robert K. G.
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BookSeries: A labyrinth book.Publisher: London : Batsford, 1996Description: 244 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0713481080.Subject(s): Mythology | Religion -- Mythology | Rites and ceremonies -- Mythology | MagicDDC classification: 291.13
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 291.13 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00228111 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Initially intended as an anthropological study, the original Golden Bough became a study of the origins of magic and religion. This abridged edition holds a magnifying glass to Frazer's insights into the nature of magic and religion and focuses on the central theme of sympathetic magic. Illustrated throughout with art, artifacts and images from around the world, it draws on historical and social evidence to reveal the spiritual essence of man.
Includes index.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
James George Frazer was a British social anthropologist, folklorist, and classical scholar who taught for most of his life at Trinity College, Cambridge. Greatly influenced by Edward Burnett Tylor's Primitive Culture, published in 1871, he wrote The Golden Bough (1890), a massive reconstruction of the whole of human thought and custom through the successive stages of magic, religion, and science.The Golden Bough is regarded by many today as a much-loved but antiquated relic, but, by making anthropological data and knowledge academically respectable, Frazer made modern comparative anthropology possible.(Bowker Author Biography)