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SirJamesGeorgeFrazer(1854-1941)isrightlyregardedasoneofthefoundersofmodernanthropology.TheGoldenBough,hismasterpiece,appearedintwelvevolumesbetween1890and1915.Thisvolumeistheauthor'sownabridgementofhisgreatwork,andwasfirstpublishedin1922.Remarkableforitsvastassemblyoffactsanditscharmofpresentation,itoffersthethesisthatmanprogressesfrommagicthroughreligiousbelieftoscientificthought.Itdiscussesfertilityrites,humansacrifice,thedyinggod,thescapegoatandmanyothersymbolsandpracticeswhichhaveinfluencedawholegenerationof20thcenturywriters,includingD.H.Lawrence,EzraPoundandT.S.Eliot.