Preview   Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) was a pioneering (if armchair) anthropologist, who first published The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion in 1890. It was a hit and later re-subtitled A Study in Magic and Religion in its second and third editions. The original two volumes eventually stretched to twelve by 1915 with … Continue reading A century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough: shaking the tree, breaking the bough