The Golden Bough: Abridged Edition by Frazer, James

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion--Abridged Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140189315)

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The Golden Bough: Abridged Edition by Frazer, James

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion--Abridged Edition

$20.00
The Golden Bough: Abridged Edition by Frazer, James

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion--Abridged Edition

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: James Frazer
ISBN-10: 0140189319
ISBN-13: 9780140189315
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1998
Pages: 944
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.10w x 1.70d
By James Frazer
By James Frazer
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James Frazer was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1854. He died in Cambridge, England, in 1941. Best remembered as the author of the The Golden Bough, Frazer was also an anthropologist, folklorist, and classical scholar. His work was an influence on such notables as Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and James Joyce.

George W. Stocking (1928-2013) was a historian of social anthropology, focused on anthropology's own past, tracing the field of study's development on two continents. Stocking was the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He was the author of After Tylor, The Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology, and Victorian Anthropology.

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