The Devil's Advocate: A Plea for Superstition

Second edition, revised and enlarged, of Psyche's Task, to which is added The Scope of Anthropology. First published 1927. Bound with The Growth of Plato's Ideal Theory, first published in 1930.
Sir James G. Frazer (1854-1941) is famous as the author of The Golden Bough, but his work ranged widely across classics, cultural history, folklore and literary criticism as well as anthropology. A Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, for 62 years, Sir James G. Frazer devoted his life to research.