The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3)

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Author

Frazer, James George, 1854-1941

Title

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

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E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, David King, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by the Humanities Text Initiative ( www.hti.umich.edu/), a unit of the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service

Language

English

LoC Class

BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism

Subject

Oceania -- Social life and customs.

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eBook-No.

20116

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20116

Release Date

December 15, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.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 — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AND THE WORSHIP OF THE DEAD — BY
2. 2.J. G. FRAZER, D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D. — FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE — PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL. — VOL. I — THE GIFFORD LECTURES, ST. ANDREWS 1911-1912
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.LECTURE I — INTRODUCTION
6. 6.LECTURE II — THE SAVAGE CONCEPTION OF DEATH
7. 7.LECTURE III — MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF DEATH
8. 8.LECTURE IV — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE ABORIGINES OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA
9. 9.LECTURE V — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE ABORIGINES OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA ( continued )
10. 10.LECTURE VI — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE OTHER ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA
11. 11.LECTURE VII — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA ( concluded )
12. 12.LECTURE VIII — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF THE TORRES STRAITS ISLANDS
13. 13.LECTURE IX — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF BRITISH NEW GUINEA
14. 14.LECTURE X — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF GERMAN NEW GUINEA
15. 15.LECTURE XI — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF GERMAN NEW GUINEA ( continued )
16. 16.LECTURE XII — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF GERMAN NEW GUINEA ( continued )
17. 17.LECTURE XIII — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF GERMAN NEW GUINEA ( continued )
18. 18.LECTURE XIV — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF GERMAN AND DUTCH NEW GUINEA
19. 19.LECTURE XV — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF SOUTHERN MELANESIA (NEW CALEDONIA)
20. 20.LECTURE XVI — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF CENTRAL MELANESIA
21. 21.LECTURE XVII — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF CENTRAL MELANESIA ( concluded )
22. 22.LECTURE XVIII — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN MELANESIA
23. 23.LECTURE XIX — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF EASTERN MELANESIA (FIJI) ( continued )
24. 24.LECTURE XX — THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY AMONG THE NATIVES OF EASTERN MELANESIA (FIJI) ( concluded )
25. 25.NOTE — MYTH OF THE CONTINUANCE OF DEATH 785
26. 26.INDEX

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