A review by zmb
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

4.0

The theorizing is fascinating, and, while the abridgment does a good job at cutting down the interminable examples of the full third edition, there are still a huge amount of them. Nevertheless, it's worth it for Frazier's unifying explanations. If they occasionally (or often) go to far in the direction of unification, they are the more interesting for it.