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Title: The Golden Bough
Subtitle: Edition of 1894
Author: James G. Frazer
Narrator: Robert Bethune
Format: Unabridged
Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-17-14
Publisher: Freshwater Seas
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 26 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Just as Proust derives an entire world of feeling, people and events from the taste of a madeleine, James G. Frazer brings us into a worldwide survey of religion, folklore, culture, symbolism, and ritual using the Priest of Nemi as his starting point. Starting from the image of the lonely, doomed high priest, prowling his precinct night and day, sword in hand, hardly daring to sleep as he awaited the assault of the man who would kill him and take his place, Frazer roams the world of ancient and modern religious and ceremonial practice in search of the underlying universals of human thought.
The Golden Bough quickly took its place in the fields of mythology, anthropology and comparative religion as a classic. Though clearly open to criticism from a modern perspective, it opened pathways of thought and interpretation that enabled later thinkers to explore perspectives that would not have been available otherwise. In many forms and guises, Frazer's ideas have flourished from his day to the present.
Members Reviews:
Repetitive and dated but interesting
This book is intentionally very repetitive, retelling very slightly different rituals and myths from one culture after another, for hours. The book follows the slow path of belief from simple magical thought, to rituals, to myths explaining the rituals, and finally to religions. The book demonstrates a wide spread and repeating pattern of ritual and myth regarding the killing and resurrection of a god.
The author uses a few outdated terms, like savages, to describe tribal people and beliefs, but the author was clearly trying to be unbiased and respectful to each of the cultures he covers.
This was well worth listening to understand the similarity of myths across a variety of cultures plus I saw how influential this book was on western literature. Clearly Durant was greatly influenced by this book as were many, many, others.
The narration is good, but slightly dry. This is really not a book for everyone. I enjoyed listening as rituals and myths mutate slowly from one form to another. The authors passion for the subject was impressive and enjoyable.
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Title: The Golden Bough
Subtitle: Edition of 1894
Author: James G. Frazer
Narrator: Robert Bethune
Format: Unabridged
Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-17-14
Publisher: Freshwater Seas
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 26 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Just as Proust derives an entire world of feeling, people and events from the taste of a madeleine, James G. Frazer brings us into a worldwide survey of religion, folklore, culture, symbolism, and ritual using the Priest of Nemi as his starting point. Starting from the image of the lonely, doomed high priest, prowling his precinct night and day, sword in hand, hardly daring to sleep as he awaited the assault of the man who would kill him and take his place, Frazer roams the world of ancient and modern religious and ceremonial practice in search of the underlying universals of human thought.
The Golden Bough quickly took its place in the fields of mythology, anthropology and comparative religion as a classic. Though clearly open to criticism from a modern perspective, it opened pathways of thought and interpretation that enabled later thinkers to explore perspectives that would not have been available otherwise. In many forms and guises, Frazer's ideas have flourished from his day to the present.
Members Reviews:
Repetitive and dated but interesting
This book is intentionally very repetitive, retelling very slightly different rituals and myths from one culture after another, for hours. The book follows the slow path of belief from simple magical thought, to rituals, to myths explaining the rituals, and finally to religions. The book demonstrates a wide spread and repeating pattern of ritual and myth regarding the killing and resurrection of a god.
The author uses a few outdated terms, like savages, to describe tribal people and beliefs, but the author was clearly trying to be unbiased and respectful to each of the cultures he covers.
This was well worth listening to understand the similarity of myths across a variety of cultures plus I saw how influential this book was on western literature. Clearly Durant was greatly influenced by this book as were many, many, others.
The narration is good, but slightly dry. This is really not a book for everyone. I enjoyed listening as rituals and myths mutate slowly from one form to another. The authors passion for the subject was impressive and enjoyable.