Anthologia Anthropologica
Anthologia Anthropologica

Author: James George Frazer

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000-07

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 9780700713417

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Edited by R. A. Downie. Volume I: The Native Races of Africa dn Madagascar (1938); volume 2: The Native Races of Australia (1939); volume III: The Native Races of Asia and Europe (1939); volume IV: The Native Races of America (1939).

The Essential Edmund Leach: Anthropology and society
The Essential Edmund Leach: Anthropology and society

Author: Edmund Ronald Leach

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780300081244

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This volume contains a selection of Edmund Leach's writings on society, taken largely, though not exclusively, from the early part of his career. It includes such essays as Rethinking Anthropology and extracts from Political Systems of Highland Burma.

J. G. Frazer
J. G. Frazer

Author: Robert Ackerman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-09-13

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780521398251

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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.

Raffaele Pettazzoni and Herbert Jennings Rose, Correspondence 1927–1958
Raffaele Pettazzoni and Herbert Jennings Rose, Correspondence 1927–1958

Author: Domenico Accorinti

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-05-08

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 9004272240

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Raffaele Pettazzoni (1883–1959), Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Rome and one of the leading historians of religions in the twentieth century, maintained a long correspondence with Herbert Jennings Rose (1883–1961), the gifted Canadian scholar who was Professor of Greek at St Andrews and is best known for his work in the field of ancient religion and folklore. These letters, spanning the years 1927 to 1958, bear witness to the close relationship between the two scholars and focus on two of Pettazzoni’s books, both translated by Rose: Essays on the History of Religions (1954) and The All-Knowing God (1956). They also shed light on Pettazzoni’s initiative to the foundation of the journal NVMEN (1954), and reveal Rose’s brilliant personality.

Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion
Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion

Author: Jacques Waardenburg

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-01-23

Total Pages: 715

ISBN-13: 3110473860

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Waardenburg’s magisterial essay traces the rise and development of the academic study of religion from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, outlining the establishment of the discipline, its connections with other fields, religion as a subject of research, and perspectives on a phenomenological study of religion. Futhermore a second part comprises an anthology of texts from 41 scholars whose work was programmatic in the evolution of the academic study of religion. Each chapter presents a particular approach, theory, and method relevant to the study of religion. The pieces selected for this volume were taken from the discipline of religious studies as well as from related fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and psychology, to name a few.