The Golden Bough; a Study in Magic and Religion

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General Books LLC, 2010 - 350 pages
Volume: 03 Publisher: London: Macmillan Publication date: 1911 Subjects: Mythology Religion Magic Superstition Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

About the author (2010)

James George Frazer was a British social anthropologist, folklorist, and classical scholar who taught for most of his life at Trinity College, Cambridge. Greatly influenced by Edward Burnett Tylor's Primitive Culture, published in 1871, he wrote The Golden Bough (1890), a massive reconstruction of the whole of human thought and custom through the successive stages of magic, religion, and science.The Golden Bough is regarded by many today as a much-loved but antiquated relic, but, by making anthropological data and knowledge academically respectable, Frazer made modern comparative anthropology possible.

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TitleThe Golden Bough; a Study in Magic and Religion
AuthorJames George Frazer
PublisherGeneral Books LLC, 2010
ISBN1153232340, 9781153232340
Length350 pages
  
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