OCCUPATION

Anthropologist

 

BIRTH DATE

January 1, 1854

 

DEATH DATE

May 7, 1941

 

PLACE OF BIRTH

Gaslgow, Scotland

 

PLACE OF DEATH

Cambridge, England

 

Sir James George Frazer was a leading Anthropologist, Folklorist and Classical Scholar.  A respected academic by his peers and colleagues he devoted much of his life researching the early history of mankind, on which he studied, wrote and theorized about the early magical thinking into religious thought.  His most famous book The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and Religion became an instant classic when first it was published in 1890.