The Golden Bough

About this text: The 1922 abridgement, published under Frazer's name. Lilly Frazer contributed substantially to the editorial work on this volume. The abridgement retains the full argument with reduction chiefly of footnotes. Public domain. Text digitised by Cornell University Library. Frazer's work carries Victorian assumptions about cultural hierarchy that contemporary anthropology has substantially critiqued. Where these limitations bear on a passage, they are noted in the passage entry. He is used here as a foundational historical scholar, not a final authority. See the editorial approach for detail.