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The Golden Bough - Volume 9
James George Frazer
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Among the Hos of North-Eastern India the great festival of the year is the harvest home, held in January, when the granaries are full of grain, and the people, to use their own expression, are full of devilry. “They have a strange notion that at this period, men and women are so overcharged with vicious propensities, that it is absolutely necessary for the safety of the person to let off steam by allowing for a time full vent to the passions.” The ceremonies open with a sacrifice to the village god of three fowls, a cock and two hens, one of which must be black. Along with them are offered flowers of the Palas tree (Butea frondosa), bread made from rice-flour, and sesa. . . Read More
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خیلی تعریف این کتاب را شنیده بودم ،طبق تعریف ها شروع کردم به خوندن اما …ترجمه اصلا روان نبود حتی بعضی جاها متوجه نمیشدم متن قبلی تموم شده و متن جدید شروع شده،موضوع کتاب خوب بود در همین زمینه کتاب دهکده های جادو را قبلا خونده بودم که به نظرم خیلی بهتر از شاخه زرین هستش ،در نهایت با متن غیر روان و سخت
دوستانِ گرانقدر، این کتاب از 69 فصل تشکیل شده است که به موضوعاتی در خصوصِ مذهب و جادو و برخی از رسومات و قوانینِ مردمانِ باستان و حتی پس از آن پرداخته است و البته اشاراتی به داستان های اساتیری (اساطیری) نیز نموده است... که به هرحال کنکاش و پژوهشی که «جیمز فریزر» بریتانیایی انجام داده است، قابل ستای
Influential without bound and ere-breaking of ground, this is undeniably a major modern classic that reshaped its entire field. Of course, most of Frazier's theses have been broadly discredited, but it's not like you're studying comparative mythology to build bridges with it (although it's been prop
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) has been called, by Theories of Primitive Religion author E. E. Evans-Pritchard, "the best-known name in anthropology." His monumental The Golden Bough, which in its unabridged form eventually ran to 12 volumes plus an index volume, is a widely-read, landmark clas
This is such an important work. If you take it from the perspective of what it is, an anthology of rituals and belief systems found in religious and non religious cultures across the globe. As some other readers have pointed out it is not linear, it is also not well coordinated in way of connecting
ما چون وارثانِ ودیعه‌ای هستیم که اعصاری چنان دور و متمادی را پشت سر نهاده که خاطره‌ی پدیدآورندگانش از یادها رفته است و صاحبانش اکنون آن را داراییِ اصیل و تغییرناپذیر خود از آغاز جهان می‌دانند. اما تأمل و تحقیق نشان خواهد داد که ما بسیاری از آنچه را که یکسره مالِ خود می‌دانیم مرهون و مدیون پیشینیا
قبلَ كل شئ لم تلبث اللسانُ وأنا أقرأُ هذا الكتاب أن تشكرَ وتحمدَ اللهَ على نعمةِ الإسلام حيث وضوح تصور الحياة والكون.
الغصن الذهبي من الكتب التي حيرتني كثيرا في اختيار الترجمة التي اقرأها، فتوفر لي في نفس الوقت ترجمتان: ترجمة دار كلمة بيد محمد زياد، وترجمة الهيئة المصرية للتأليف بيد أحمد أبوزيد، وفي