AFTERMATH - A SUPPLEMENT TO THE GOLDEN BOUGH
Book Details + Condition: The MacMillan Company (New York). First U.S. Edition, 1937. Hardcover. 480 pages with Index. Scottish social anthropologist Sir James Frazer (1854–1941) first published The Golden Bough in 1890. It was a seminal two-volume work, revolutionizing the study of ancient religion through comparative analysis of the world's mythologies, rituals and superstitions. In 1915, Frazer completed the revised 12-volume third edition, but found that he had further evidence to present. This work - "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. Chapters include:
- Magic
- Magicians as Gods
- Magical Control of the Weather
- Incarnate Human Gods
- Kings of Nature
- Worship of Trees
- Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
- Sacred Marriage
- Dianus and Diana
- Tabooed Acts
- Tabooed Things
- The Fairy Wife
- Reincarnation of the Dead
- Mother-Kin and Mother Goddesses
- Men Dressed as Women
- Human Sacrifices
- Homoeopathic Magic
- The Omnipresence of Demons
- Magic Flowers
- The Ritual of Death
- And much more.
Ex-library with removed paste-downs. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; normal light aging and wear to boards; darkening to spine, with call number painted in lower half; small number to inside front board; scuffing and small number to title page; scuffing to rear endpapers; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.
