J G Frazer: His Life and Work

by Robert J. Ackerman and Robert Ackerman

Book Overview

Sir James G. Frazer's The Golden Bough, first published in 1890, was the first work in English to understand the religion of classical antiquity in the context of primitive religion. Its dramatic impact on the history of ideas lasted well into the twentieth century, in its association of religious myths with the more primitive forms of ritual and magic generated by the 'savage mind', identified as a common misunderstanding of the scientific laws governing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521340934
• ISBN13: 9780521340939
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.5"