КРИТИКА ФРЕЗЕРОВЕ КОНЦЕПЦИЈЕ МАГИЈЕ
CRITIQUE OF FRAZER'S CONCEPTION OF MAGIC

Summary/Abstract: This article is a consideration about lacks of conception of magic developed by James G. Frazer in his famous study The Golden Bough. It starts with broader exposure of forgotten remarks of Frazer's contemporary R. R. Marett, who shaped his own conception of magic on the critique of Frazer. In the central part of the article the author develops his own critique of fundamental methodological lacks of Frazer's conception of magic. He argues that there is a significant inconsistency in Frazer's classification of magic, as well a too simplified understanding of the importance of magic in the life of a primitive man. After that, the author shortly introduces the epistemological critiques of Frazer's standpoints developed by philosopher L. Wittgenstein and anthropologists E. Leach and E. E. Evans-Pritchard. The paper concludes with a comprehensive critique of B. Malonowski's apology of Frazer's view of magic, because the of his uncritical promotion of the standpoints exposed in The Golden Bough, which was the main reason for long term survival of Frazer's conception of magic up to nowdays.

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