The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3) : (Registro nro. 61401)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | BL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Frazer, James George, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1854-1941 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3) : |
| Remainder of title | The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2006 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2006-12-15 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, David King, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by the Humanities Text Initiative (http://www.hti.umich.edu/), a unit of the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service |
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| Summary, etc. | "The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1" by J. G. Frazer is a scholarly treatise on anthropology and religious studies written in the early 20th century. This first volume focuses specifically on the beliefs surrounding immortality and the cult of the dead as observed among aboriginal communities in Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea, and Melanesia. The work delves into the profound influence that these beliefs exert on human life, seeking to elucidate their origins, practices, and cultural meanings. At the start of the text, Frazer outlines the scope and methodology of his lectures, which were originally delivered at St. Andrews. He introduces the historical method of inquiry into religious beliefs, distancing his approach from dogmatic or philosophical discussions. The opening portion lays the groundwork for exploring the concept of immortality, emphasizing the necessity of understanding primitive religious ideas. He discusses how various communities perceive death, the afterlife, and their dead, positing that the worship of spirits is a universal aspect of human culture that has persisted through time. Frazer also highlights the need to study these primitive beliefs as they are rapidly fading in contemporary society, with the aim of preserving knowledge about humanity's shared past. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
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| Note about original | Original publication data not identified |
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| Uncontrolled term | Immortality -- Comparative studies |
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| Uncontrolled term | Ancestor worship -- Oceania |
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| Uncontrolled term | Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Oceania |
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| Uncontrolled term | Burial |
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| Uncontrolled term | Oceania -- Religion |
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| Uncontrolled term | Oceania -- Social life and customs. |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20116">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20116</a> |
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