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This work by Sir James Frazer (1854-1941) is widely considered to be one of the most important early texts in the fields of psychology and anthropology. At the same time, by applying modern methods of comparative ethnography to the classical world, and revealing the superstition and irrationality beneath the surface of the classical culture which had for so long been a model for Western civilisation, it was extremely controversial. Frazer was greatly influenced by E. B. Tylor's Primitive Culture (also reissued in this series), and by the work of the biblical scholar William Robertson Smith, to whom the first edition is dedicated. The twelve-volume third edition, reissued here, was greatly revised and enlarged, and published between 1911 and 1915; the two-volume first edition (1890) is also available in this series. Volume 12 (1915) provides a bibliography and general index to the entire third edition.
Mythology --- Religion --- Magic --- Superstition --- Social Science --- Body, Mind & Spirit
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Stephenson Percy Smith (1840-1922) arrived in New Zealand as a boy, and soon became fascinated by Maori culture. After retiring in 1900 from his career as a government surveyor, Smith devoted himself to the study of the Maori and co-founded the Polynesian Society, which published this two-volume study in 1913-15. The book contains the Maori text of an important body of beliefs and traditions which had been committed to writing over fifty years earlier, when the young W. H. Whatahoro had acted as scribe for a group of senior elders concerned to preserve this ancient and sacred knowledge. Only long afterwards was Whatahoro willing to divulge it to Europeans, and he personally assisted Smith with the translation provided here. Volume 2 focuses on traditions relating to the history and migrations of the Maori people and their arrival in New Zealand in the 'Great Fleet'.
Mythology, Maori --- Maori Language --- Social Science --- Foreign Language Study
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Oedipus (Greek mythology) --- Literature, Comparative --- Greek drama --- Greece
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Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian --- Legends, Assyro-Babylonian --- Babylonia --- Assyria
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Religion --- Mythology --- Religion --- Magic --- Superstition --- Adonis (Greek deity) --- Attis (God) --- Osiris (Egyptian deity)
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Egyptian literature --- German literature --- Mythology, Egyptian. --- Translations from Egyptian. --- Egypt --- Religion.
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Mythology, Egyptian --- Egyptian literature --- German literature --- Mythologie égyptienne --- Translations into German --- Translations from Egyptian --- Egypt --- Egypte --- Religion --- Religion
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