The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead — Volume 1

Volume 1 of Sir James George Frazer's three-volume Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead (1913) opens the work based on his Gifford Lectures at St Andrews. The chapters describe the beliefs concerning death, the soul, and the afterlife among the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea, and Melanesia.