Who is James (George) Frazer from Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo and what is their importance?

Frazer was an anthropologist who wrote the popular and widely published Golden Bough. He regarded confusion between uncleanness and holiness as part of primitive thinking. He thought that savages think in a completely different way than modern people, confusing subjective and objective experiences. He treated magic as symbolic action while, in his opinion, ethical refinement was the mark of advanced civilization and regarded magic as separate from morals or religion.