The Golden Bough, 3rd Edition
A Study in Magic and Religion
$48.73
- Paperback
912 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2009
Summary
A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature.
First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906-15) which was abridged in 1922 by the author and his wife. That abridgement has never been reconsidered for a modern audience. In it some of the more controversial passage…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199538829 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199538824 |
| Author: | James George Frazer, Sir James George Frazer, Robert Fraser |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 912 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2009 |
| Weight: | 620g |
| Dimensions: | 40mm x 130mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
James George Frazer
Sir J. G. Frazer (1854-1941) was fellow of Trinity, Cambridge, and appointed to the first named Chair of Social Anthropology in Liverpool.
Robert Frazer is Director of Studies in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of The Making of `The Golden Bough’ and Sir James Frazer and the Literary Imagination (both 1990).
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