The Golden Bough

Name: The Golden Bough
Author: James George Frazer

by James George Frazer

Comparative study of magic rituals and religious beliefs across cultures

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James George Frazer

Scottish anthropologist whose The Golden Bough synthesized comparative mythology, religion, and ritual into a vast study of primitive thought. Its influence on literature—Eliot, Yeats, Lawrence—was immense. Though his methods are now considered outdated, it remains a monument of 19th-century scholarship.

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