The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion

James George Frazer

• Essays
• Book language: English
• 939 pages

The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer is a wide-ranging work of comparative anthropology and essays on magic, religion, myth and ritual. It explores themes such as sympathetic magic, taboo, sacred kingship and vegetation cults, drawing examples from many cultures. It is worth listening to for its influential attempt to understand how people have imagined the sacred and controlled nature.

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