The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 3

James George Frazer

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MICRONESIA AND THE MICRONESIANS

MICRONESIA AND THE MICRONESIANS

§ 1. The Islands and the People

In the last volume I treated of the belief in immortality and the worship of the dead, as that belief and worship are found among the Polynesians, the people who, at the date of their discovery by Europeans, occupied the islands scattered over the Pacific, from New Zealand on the south to Hawaii on the north, and from Tonga on the west to Easter Island on the east. We now turn to the consideration of the corresponding belief and worship as these exist, or existed till lately, among the Micronesians, a race akin to the Polynesians by blood and language. As the subject may be unfamiliar to some of my readers, I propose in this first chapter to give some general account of Micronesia and the Micronesians, reserving for subsequent chapters the consideration of my special subject, which is the Micronesian conception of human immortality and its practical embodiment in the worship of the dead.

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