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Aftermath
A Supplement to The Golden Bough

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Author: James George Frazer

Date Published: August 2013
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9781108057509

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The Scottish social anthropologist Sir James Frazer (1854–1941) first published The Golden Bough in 1890. A seminal two-volume work (reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection), it revolutionised the study of ancient religion through comparative analysis of mythology, rituals and superstitions around the world. Following the completion in 1915 of the revised twelve-volume third edition (also available in this series), Frazer found that he had more to say and further evidence to present. Published in 1936, Aftermath was conceived as a supplement to The Golden Bough, offering his additional findings on such topics as magic, royal and priestly taboos, sacrifice, reincarnation, and all manner of supernatural beliefs spanning cultures, continents and millennia. Sealing Frazer's profound contribution to the study of religion and folklore, this work remains an important text for scholars of anthropology and the history of ideas.

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- Date Published: August 2013
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108057509
- length: 522 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 29 mm
- weight: 0.66kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Magic
2. The magical control of the weather
3. Magicians as kings
4. Incarnate human gods
5. Departmental kings of nature
6. The worship of trees
7. Relics of tree-worship in Europe
8. The influence of the sexes on vegetation
9. The sacred marriage
10. The king's fire
11. The fire-drill
12. Father Jove and Mother Vesta
13. The origin of perpetual fires
14. The succession to the kingdom in ancient Latium
15. St George and the parilia
16. The oak
17. Dianus and Diana
18. Royal and priestly taboos
19. The perils of the soul
20. Tabooed acts
21. Tabooed persons
22. Tabooed things
23. Tabooed words
24. The killing of the divine king
25. The fairy wife
26. Temporary kings
27. Sacrifice of the king's son
28. Killing the tree-spirit
29. Swinging as a magical rite
30. The myth of Adonis
31. Consecration by anointing
32. Reincarnation of the dead
33. Volcanic religion
34. The gardens of Adonis
35. The rituals of Attis
36. Attis as the father god
37. On head-hunting
38. The tears of Isis
39. The star of Isis
40. Feasts of all souls
41. Mother-kin and mother goddesses
42. Marriage of brothers with sisters
43. Children of living parents in ritual
44. Blind victims in sacrifice
45. Men dressed as women
46. Children in winnowing-fans
47. Magical significance of games in primitive agriculture
48. Women's part in primitive agriculture
49. Personification of the corn-spirit at harvest
50. Human sacrifices for the crops
51. The corn-spirit as an animal
52. The Pleiades in primitive agriculture
53. A primitive form of purification
54. The Maniae at Aricia
55. Attempts to deceive demons
56. The sacrifice of first-fruits
57. Homoeopathic magic of a flesh diet
58. The propitiation of wild animals by hunters
59. The transmigration of human souls into animals
60. The transference of evil
61. The omnipresence of demons
62. The public expulsion of evils
63. Public scapegoats
64. The Saturnalia and kindred festivals
65. Not to touch the earth
66. Not to see the sun
67. The seclusion of girls at puberty
68. The fire festivals of Europe
69. Were-wolves
70. The fire-walk
71. The magic flowers of Midsummer Eve
72. The external soul in folk-tales
73. The external soul in folk-custom
74. The ritual of death and resurrection
75. The mistletoe
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