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  • GAPH Survey Forms 399-188 February 1981 
    Smith, Bartholemew (South Georgia Area Planning and Development Commission, 1981-02)
    1. 405 E. Swamp St., Quitman, Georgia 2. 407 E. Swamp St., Quitman, Georgia 3. 205 N. Walker St., Quitman, Georgia 4. 212 N. Walker St., Quitman, Georgia 5. 214 N. Walker St., Quitman, Georgia 6. 308 N. Walker St., ...
  • GAPH Survey Forms 389-398 February 1981 
    Smith, Bartholemew (South Georgia Area Planning and Development Commission, 1981-02)
    1. 202 S. Seymore St., Quitman, Georgia 2. 512 E. Stephens St., Quitman, Georgia 3. 702 E. Stephens St., Quitman, Georgia 4. First Presbyterian Church 105 W. Stephens St., Quitman, Georgia 5. 209 W. Stephens St. Quitman, ...
  • Insurance Maps of Thomasville, Georgia 
    Sanborn Map Company (Sanborn Map Company, 1928)
    Insurance Maps of Thomasville Georgia, published by the Sanborn Map Company, New York, 1928. With additional indexes added in November 1938 and June 1947. Scanned from original print copy loaned by the City of Thomasville. If ...
  • GAPH Survey Forms 367-380 February 1981 
    Smith, Bartholemew (South Georgia Area Planning and Development Commission, 1981-02)
    1. 1015 E. Screven St., Quitman, Georgia 2. 1101 E. Screven St., Quitman, Georgia 3. 1102 E. Screven St., Quitman, Georgia 4. 1106 E. Screven St., Quitman, Georgia 5. 1108 E. Screven St., Quitman, Georgia 6. 1202 E. ...
  • GAPH Survey Forms 340-366 February 1981 
    Smith, Bartholemew (South Georgia Area Planning and Development Commission, 1981-02)
    1. Tanner's Pharmacy 317 E. Screven St., Quitman, Georgia 2. Quitman United Methodist Church, 509 E. Screven St., Quitman, Georgia 3. Hotel General Quitman, 400 E. Screven St., Quitman, Georgia 4. Quitman Post Office, ...
  • GAPH Survey Forms 330-339 February 1981 
    Smith, Bartholemew (South Georgia Area Planning and Development Commission, 1981-02)
    1. Quitman City Hall. 220 E. Screven St., Quitman, Georgia. 2. Citizens National Bank. 301 E. Screven St., Quitman, Georgia 3. Lee Drugs; Royal Cafe; Radio Shack; 302; 304; 306 E. Screven St., Quitman, Georgia 4. Quitman ...
  • Frazerian Survivals: Contemporary Witchcraft and The Golden Bough 
    Cornish, Helen (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    This ethnographic paper traces how remnants of Frazer’s The Golden Bough are navigated amongst twenty-first century witches as they orient contemporary practices towards the past. Additional Authors: Shaking the Tree, ...
  • Same but Different: Frazer’s Sympathetic Law of Similarity and the Greco-Roman defixiones 
    Moorees, Saskia (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    Frazer’s typology of ‘sympathetic magic’ proved especially popular in the study of ancient magic after it appeared in The Golden Bough. Frazer’s Law of Similarity, in particular, was predicated on the idea that according ...
  • From there to here and back again: Evan's Great Goddess, Frazer's Dying King and Mary Renault's popular fiction 
    Tittl, Larissa (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    This paper will explore how Frazer’s dying god and sacrificial king are taken up and reimagined in The King must Die, by twentieth century novelist Mary Renault. A pathway from Frazer’s dying god and sacrificed king to ...
  • Reading about Nymphs and Roman Soldiers with and without Frazer 
    Köster, Isabel (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    This talk explores the usefulness and pitfalls of using Frazer’s theories to interpret inscriptions that refer to dedications made by (or on behalf of) Roman soldiers to nymphs. Starting with an overview in The Golden ...
  • Guess Who’s Back? Graeber and Wengrow’s Resurrection of Matristic Minoans in 'The Dawn of Everything' 
    O'Brien, Stephen (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    In 2021 David Graeber and David Wengrow released their book The Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity to acclaim in the popular media and bestseller status in several countries. Anthropologists and Archaeologists ...
  • The Hebrew Bible Scapegoat: Complicating a Frazerian Typology 
    Smith, Caroline (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    Although now methodologically outdated, The Golden Bough is credited with making decisive the scapegoat’s meaning as the innocent surrogate victim who is blamed and punished for the deeds of others. This victim’s namesake, ...
  • The Perils of Othering and Brothering: Some Thoughts on Dying Gods in Ancient Mesopotamia 
    Scurlock, JoAnne (Prudence Priest Collection of the New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    The Frazerian Fertility Cult is the mirror image of a culture that is at the same time sex-obsessed and deeply uncomfortable on the subject. From earliest times in ancient Mesopotamia, overpopulation was a serious concern ...
  • The Legacy of The Golden Bough in the Interpretation of Early Sumerian Myth: The Case of Ninsumun and Lugalbanda 
    Linder, Nadia (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    Many tenets first formulated by Sir James Frazer in his magnum opus The Golden Bough still survive to this day in discussions of ancient Mesopotamian cult, myth, and religion. As a case study for the still pernicious ...
  • Much as I Owe to Mannhardt…:. Wald- und Feldkulte at the Roots of The Golden Bough 
    Rosa, Frederico Delgado (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-10)
    Wilhelm Mannhardt (1831-1880) is an excluded ancestor par excellence. Never translated, seldom read, his work is only mentioned in passing, as a source of data for The Golden Bough. Despite James Frazer acknowledging his ...
  • Welcome to the Conference 
    Parkin, Tim G. (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-10)
    Dr. Tim Parkin, The Tatoulis Chair In Classics, Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne opens the conference with a welcome and a brief overview of Frazer's importance. Additional Authors: ...
  • Gold is the New Black: Race, the Academic Study of Religion, and The Golden Bough 
    Zwissler, Laurel (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    This project investigates Frazer’s influence within both the academic study of religion and new religious movements, such as contemporary Paganism and New Age, with focus on his deployment of religion to code cultural ...
  • The Nude in Iconography in Contemporary Cults: A Study Case of Lilith 
    Lavallé, Vanessa (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    In Western contemporary paganism, “naked Goddess’’ figures are often used as images of the “Great Goddess”. This holds particularly true in the Western French Wicca which uses ancient Mesopotamian iconography as the ...
  • Moon and Huntress: Frazer’s Arician Diana in Italian-American Witchcraft 
    Tully, Caroline (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    Dr. Carolina Tully explores Raven Grimassi's book Italian Witchcraft and the influence of Frazer's Golden Bough on his theory of Strega origins and its relationship to the goddess Diana. Additional Authors: Shaking the ...
  • Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough: Frazer's Golden Bough at 100 [Event Program] 
    Breaking the Bough: Frazer's Golden Bough at 100 (Conference); Tully, Caroline J.; Budin, Stephanie Lynn; University of Melbourne (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library. Archives and Special Collections. Valdosta State University., 2023-02-10)
    Program for the online conference "Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough: Frazer's Golden Bough at 100" hosted by Dr. Caroline J. Tully and Stephanie Budin.

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