Frazer: Symbols & Society

[@casteretpollux]

Solution found. Turn off the sound and turn on the captions.

[@NicholasHerriman]

Good for you! 👏

[@peterbarba1668]

Let me sing to you how things turn into other things. Ovid. This is a snippet of the Overstory by Richard Powers. Reminds me how the golden bough (or properties of wood) are echoed in different mythologies and folk songs. I give thee (this lecture) to Odin!

[@Matthewsteel]

My professor recommended me this video, for my analytical paper! Thanks, great help!

[@NicholasHerriman]

Nice. Where are you studying?

[@techne_]

Thanks for the lecture. Try to improve audio next time please.

[@zywu3953]

Thank you, this is really good introduction of the book.

[@NicholasHerriman]

Thanks. For more on Frazer, please check see this blog: anthropologyofsymbols.blogspot.com/2017/07/1-symbols-as-survivals.html

[@frazerrodrigues]

My name is Frazer

[@NicholasHerriman]

With a great name, comes great responsibility. Go out, Frazer, and create a theory for the 21st century, just like your namesake did for the 19th century. And peace be with you.

[@ndmath]

17:49 "Depositing souls for safekeeping somewhere else": so horcruxes in Harry Potter are another instance of this concept?

[@NicholasHerriman]

I still haven't watched that. But another example might be taking the placenta after birth and burying it with a tree. The tree and the spirit of the baby live on. I take this example from 1980s Perth when, or so I recall, I met several mothers who did this.

[@JimBCameron]

BTW question, I was under the belief that Voudou dolls were not actually Voudou?

[@NicholasHerriman]

I've never studied West African belief system that also was taken to Latin America which is sometimes called "voodoo" etc. However, most 'traditional' belief systems display elements of what Frazer called the "imitative principle".

[@KrissyDeluxe]

magic is hoodoo and voudou is the negative part of it

[@KrissyDeluxe]

you still find practices like this also in louisiane etc.

[@felixgelukonstantinescu4751]

Believe Nothing, Trust Anyone.

[@felixgelukonstantinescu4751]

32, 44 Stranger.

[@ericadler9680]

Interesting lecture, thanks. I just ordered The Golden Bough and I will discuss it on my channel.

[@NicholasHerriman]

Enjoy!

[@casteretpollux]

Please re record.

[@saityavuz76]

Thank you

[@NicholasHerriman]

You're wecome.

[@gasparucciox9706]

excellent

[@NicholasHerriman]

Thanks!