The Golden Bough

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>One of the most influential works ever written on mythology and religion.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>James George Frazer's monumental study transformed the modern understanding of myth ritual and belief and helped establish anthropology as a serious scientific discipline. Drawing on traditions from Europe the Near East Africa Asia and the Americas Frazer explores magic sacred kingship fertility rites taboos and the origins of religious thought across human cultures.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>one-volume abridged edition</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> makes the vast scope of the original work accessible to modern readers while preserving the power and intellectual ambition that made it a landmark of comparative religion and anthropology.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Few books have exercised such a profound influence on modern literature and thought. Its ideas shaped the work of Sigmund Freud Carl Jung James Joyce T. S. Eliot Robert Graves and Joseph Campbell and continue to inform the study of mythology folklore and cultural history.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Both a pioneering scientific study and a work of extraordinary imagination this classic remains essential reading for anyone interested in mythology religion anthropology and the origins of human belief.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p>