The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 2 (of 3)
The Belief Among the Polynesians
The Belief Among the Polynesians is the second volume of James George Frazer's The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, published in 1922 and based on his Gifford lectures at St. Andrews. Frazer, author of The Golden Bough, surveys island by island what the peoples of the Pacific believed about the soul and did for their dead: the Maoris and their taboo, the Tongans with their gods, temples and megalithic tombs, the Samoans and their family deities, the Hervey and Society Islanders, the Marquesans and the Hawaiians. Each chapter describes the land and the people's way of life before turning to religion, funeral rites and the fate of the soul, drawing on the reports of missionaries and voyagers. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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