Abstract
SIR JAMES FRAZER'S “Golden Bough” is in many respects the greatest achievement of anthropology-a science the short life-history of which allows still of a rapid survey and a correct apportion ment of values. The book, like no other work, expresses the spirit of modern humanism-the union of classical scholarship with folk-lore and anthropology. The marble forms of antique legend and myth are made to lend their beauty to the crude and queer customs of the savage and the uncouth usages of the peasant, while the Gods and Heroes of Olympus receive in exchange the vitalising breath of life and reality from their humbler yet more animate counterparts.
The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and Religion.
By Sir James George Frazer. Abridged Edition. Pp. xiv + 756. (Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London, 1922.) 18s. net.
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MALINOWSKI, B. The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and Religion. Nature 111, 658–662 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111658a0
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