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The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

A Study in Magic and Religion, abridged, introduced and annotated by Robert Fraser. Over 125 years after it first appeared, the life-work of Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer, remains a uniquely disturbing masterpiece – a ground-breaking exploration of the twisted roots of magic, ritual and religious belief, and a transformative influence for writers from Eliot to Hemingway, Lovecraft to Freud.

On the surface, The Golden Bough provides a comforting Darwinian account of humanity’s progress from an Age of Magic, through an Age of Religion and on to an Age of Science. But other unnerving conclusions gradually emerge: that the superstitions that Frazer catalogues still bubble dangerously beneath an easily-cracked veneer of rationality, and the thought-processes of the reader and primitive man share an unexpected ‘essential similarity’. Even more alarming, he presents shocking parallels between tribal rituals, ancient religious ceremonies and key components of Christianity, including its festivals, sacraments, and even the narrative of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2018
• Black Cloth Hardback, 464, 520 pp
• With 72 pages of colour and b/w plates
• Size 255 x 170mm, 3.2kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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