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The 23 pages that link to James George Frazer, each with the reason it gives.

• MythRelated: Frazer popularized broad comparisons between myths and ritual practices, though many claims are disputed.

• ScapegoatingRelated: His studies helped popularize the scapegoat as a comparative anthropological motif.

• The Waste LandRelated: Eliot cited Frazer’s work as a source for the poem’s ritual and fertility motifs.

• Comparative religionRelated: His broad comparisons exemplify both the ambition and limits of early scholarship.

• Comparative mythologyRelated: His evolutionary framework became one of the field’s most influential early models.

• Edward Burnett TylorRelated: Frazer extended comparative theories of religion that Tylor had helped establish.

• TotemismRelated: His 1887 book Totemism assembled examples and theories that shaped the subject.

• Anthropology of religionRelated: His evolutionary comparisons became a prominent model that later anthropologists challenged.

• MagicRelated: Frazer made sympathetic magic central to an influential evolutionary account of religion.

• PausaniasRelated: Frazer’s translation and notes shaped modern English-language study of the Description of Greece.

• ScapegoatRelated: His work compared scapegoat ceremonies across cultures.

• EthnologyRelated: His wide-ranging comparisons exemplify early ethnology’s search for cultural patterns.

• Max MüllerCompared with: Frazer’s ritual-centered comparisons contrast with Müller’s emphasis on language in interpreting myth.

• The Sacred and the ProfaneRelated: His comparative method supplied material and evolutionary assumptions that Durkheim later reconsidered.

• The Golden BoughBroader topic: Frazer gathered and interpreted the materials that shaped the book.

• Fertility riteRelated: His influential theories connected ritual, seasonal kingship, and fertility, but are now treated critically.

• Margaret MurrayRelated: Frazer’s theories of fertility ritual formed part of the intellectual climate surrounding Murray’s work.

• Modern paganismRelated: Frazer's influential theories helped popularize ritual interpretations later adapted by some pagan writers.

• Unilineal evolutionRelated: His proposed sequence extended evolutionary staging to religious thought.

• Walter Baldwin SpencerRelated: Frazer’s evolutionary theories shaped the intellectual setting in which Spencer and Gillen’s work was received.

• Edvard WestermarckRelated: Frazer and Westermarck were prominent contemporaries whose competing explanations shaped early anthropology.

• Theories about religionRelated: He proposed a broad sequence in which religion followed magic in human thought.

• TotemRelated: His influential account helped popularize totemism in early anthropology.