This somewhat unexpected claim appears in Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, Chap. 49; I'd have thought neither the man nor the book needed any introduction. The book is to 20th C. anthropology roughly as Max Weber's Protestant Ethic is to 20th C. sociology, and to 21th C. anthropology roughly as Newton's Opticks is to quantum electrodynamics: both indispensable and completely outdated. As for the man, he pioneered the study of myth and ritual, contributed 9 entries in the Encyclopae...
