The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion--Abridged Edition (Penguin Modern Classics)

by George Stocking (Introduction), Sir James Frazer (Author)

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  Abridged
  1996

  $6.87

  Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) caught the popular imagination with his vast and enterprising comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, which in its third edition numbered 12 volumes. Reissued here is Frazer's own single-volume abridgement of 1922.

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  Paperback
  1978

  $5.78

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $16.58

  Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic, collected from sources around the world, led Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures. Frazer's learning inspired a whole generation of ethnographers and comparative anthropologists, and had a particularly powerful effect on many other thinkers and writers such as Sigmund Freud, D.H. Lawrence, Joyce, Yeats and T.S. Eliot.