Sir James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
Sir James George Frazer in 1933
A snake shedding its skin
Dead banana plants
Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In the United States, social anthropology is commonly subsumed within cultural anthropology or sociocultural anthropology.
The British Museum, London
Edward Burnett Tylor, 19th-century British anthropologist
Bronisław Malinowski, Polish anthropologist and ethnographer at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Main entrance to the London School of Economics and Political Science