The Making of the Golden Bough : The Origins and Growth of an Argument

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Prospect: “Diana’s Mirror”....Pages 1-16 The Ebbing Tide....Pages 17-32 A Meeting of Minds....Pages 33-49 The King is Dead....Pages 50-59 The Sacred and the Taboo....Pages 60-69 Totems and Totem Feasts....Pages 70-85 Sacrifice as Eucharist....Pages 86-100 Sacrifice as Magic....Pages 101-116 The Progress of the Mind....Pages 117-135 The Man of Sorrows....Pages 136-155 The Theatre of Myth....Pages 156-172 The Flutes of Tammuz....Pages 173-189 “Sexta Luna”....Pages 190-202 Retrospect: The Dying Sun....Pages 203-212 Back Matter....Pages 213-240 This study is a collection of theories that lead up to the writing of the historic The Golden Bough