Sir James George Frazer

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 ediciones subsecuentes. Con esta nueva version se ofrecen por primera vez al publico hispanohablante las teorias mas audaces de Frazer contextualizadas con un nuevo aparato critico, introduccion y notas.

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 bajo la forma impalpable y el respeto irrestricto que profesamos hacia objetos y palabras tabu.

A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906-15) which was abridged in 1922 by the author and his wife. That abridgement has never been reconsidered for a modern audience.In it some of the more controversial passages were dropped, including Frazer's daring speculations on the Crucifixion of Christ. For the first time this one-volume edition restores Frazer's bolder theories and sets them within the framework of a valuableintroduction and notes. A seminal work of modern anthropolgy, The Golden Bough also influenced many twentieth-century writers, including D H Lawrence, T S Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis.Its discussion of magical types, the sacrificial killing of kings, the dying god, and the scapegoat is given fresh pertinence in this new edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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 ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefly, but I soon found that to render it probable or even intelligible it was necessary to discuss certain more general questions, some of which had hardly been broached before. In successive editions the discussion of these and kindred topics has occupied more and more space, the enquiry has branched out in more and more directions, until the two volumes of the original work have expanded into twelve. Meantime a wish has often been expressed that the book should be issued in a more compendious form. This abridgment is an attempt to meet the wish and thereby to bring the work within the range of a wider circle of readers. While the bulk of the book has been greatly reduced, I have endeavoured to retain its leading principles, together with an amount of evidence sufficient to illustrate them clearly. The language of the original has also for the most part been preserved, though here and there the exposition has been somewhat condensed. In order to keep as much of the text as possible I have sacrificed all the notes, and with them all exact references to my authorities. Readers who desire to ascertain the source of any particular statement must therefore consult the larger work, which is fully documented and provided with a complete bibliography.

"El autor reúne en este volumen relatos semejantes a los del Antiguo Testamento, que son parte del folklore de pueblos y naciones muy alejados de las tierras palestinas, y los presenta aquí para probar la universalidad de la experiencia psiquica que evocan estas narraciones."

The Golden Bough - A Study in Comparative Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. Sir James George Frazer (January 1854 7 May 1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.

It may be reckoned a peculiar piece of good fortune that among the wreckage of classical literature the Description of Greece by Pausanias should have come down to us entire. In this work we possess a plain, unvarnished account by an eye-witness of the state of Greece in the second century of our era. Of no other part of the ancient world has a description at once so minute and so trustworthy survived, and if we had been free to single out one country in one age of which we should wish a record to be preserved, our choice might well have fallen on Greece in the age of the Antonines. No other people has exerted so deep and abiding an influence on the course of modern civilisation as the Greeks, and never could all the monuments of their chequered but glorious history have been studied so fully as in the second century of our era. The great age of the nation, indeed, had long been over, but in the sunshine of peace and imperial favour Greek art and literature had blossomed again. New temples had sprung up; new images had been carved; new theatres and baths and aqueducts ministered to the amusement and luxury of the people. Among the new writers whose works the world will not willingly let die, it is enough to mention the great names of Plutarch and Lucian.

The Golden Bough - James George Frazer - A wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, first published as two volumes in 1890. It was aimed at a broadly literate audience raised on tales The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, and offered a modernist approach to religion, treating it as a cultural phenomenon rather than discussing it from a theological perspective.

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 ediciones subsecuentes. Con esta nueva version se ofrecen por primera vez al publico hispanohablante las teorias mas audaces de Frazer contextualizadas con un nuevo aparato critico, introduccion y notas.

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 ediciones subsecuentes. Con esta nueva version se ofrecen por primera vez al publico hispanohablante las teorias mas audaces de Frazer contextualizadas con un nuevo aparato critico, introduccion y notas.