The Mythology in our Language : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough

In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer's 2019;s Golden Bough, published posthumously in 1967. At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact's 2014;continental thinkers drew heavily on anthropology's 2019;s theoretical terms, like mana, taboo, and potlatch, in order to help them explore the limits of human belief and imagination. Wittgenstein's 2019;s remarks on ritual, magic, religion, belief, ceremony, and Frazer's 2019;s own logical presuppositions are as lucid and thought-provoking now as they were in Wittgenstein's 2019;s day. Anthropologists find themselves asking many of the same questions as Wittgenstein's 2014;and in a reflection of that, this volume is fleshed out with a series of engagements with Wittgenstein's 2019;s ideas by some of the world's 2019;s leading anthropologists, including Veena Das, David Graeber, Wendy James, Heonik Kwon, Michael Lambek, Michael Puett, and Carlo Severi.

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