The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3)
The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead began as the Gifford Lectures that James George Frazer, author of The Golden Bough, delivered at St. Andrews in 1911 and 1912. This first of three volumes opens with general lectures on the savage conception of death and the myths that explain how death came into the world, then surveys beliefs about the soul and the afterlife among the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, the islanders of the Torres Straits, the peoples of New Guinea and those of Melanesia. Frazer assembles reports from missionaries and anthropologists in great quantity, and he writes with a stately rhythm. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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