James George Frazer
(1854-1941)
Scottish social anthropologist
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Sir James George Frazer OM FRS FRSE FBA (1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His most famous work, The Golden Bough (1890), documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the world. Frazer posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science.
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1 January 1854 Glasgow, Scotland
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7 May 1941 (aged 87) Cambridge, England
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| Zodiac | Capricorn |
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