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The Golden Bough
Year
2012
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Dover Publications
Summary
An expert in myth and religion, the author spent over a quarter-century assembling this study of the cults, rites, and myths of antiquity. Frazer's definitions of "magic," "religion," and "science" were useful to his successors in social anthropology, and his explications of ancient legends influenced generations of writers and poets.