Sir James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist. Influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion he is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. Frazer's most famous work, The Golden Bough (1890), documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs across the globe. Frazer posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science.
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