The Golden Bough (Third Edition, Vol. 4 of 12) - The Original Classic Edition

from P_S_Patrick

This a quite a long book, at 714 pages, and index etc. on top of that, and the text on each page is small, so it may take you a long time to read it. The book will mainly interest those who like to read about historical peoples, and their myths and beliefs and traditions. Those included are the R...

from Devil_llama

This book is a classic in freethought literature, giving a detailed (and I do mean detailed) analysis of the various early relgions and how they evolved into the pagan gods. The author started out to give an explanation of one particular, limited phenomenon, the temple of Diana, and ranged far an...

from IreneF

Frazer has probably had as much influence on 20th century literature as Freud. As one of the most influential anthropological tomes ever written, I thought this book would hold some interest, even though its thesis (like psychoanalysis) is discredited. Oh, am I ever sorry. The contents are jumble...

from LisaMaria_C

The Foreword compares Frazer and Golden Bough in its impact to such revolutionary thinkers of the 19th Century as Darwin, Marx, and Freud. This seminal work of anthropology and comparative religion first published in 1890 was in fact a great influence on Freud and Jung as well as T.S. Eliot and Y...

from jsburbidge

This is a great and fascinating work, steeped in detail and careful scholarship, and very well-written. The pity is that the underlying assumption of the work, that the customs it details are evidence ofva primitive, psn-European, primitive culture. There is evidence enough that many of Frazier's...