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I don't think I would characterise The Economist as non-fiction.
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CestMoi posted:I'm reading THe Golden Bough and I keep alternating between cringing at how he keeps going on about how Aboriginals are by far the most underdeveloped of the human races and finding the sarcastic treatment of all of the weird magical rituals incredibly charming. There's a very good chapter later on where he's talking about all the the gruesome sacrifices of the aztecs, and he recounts that they had a fire sacrifice in which people were thrown into a fire, burnt for a while, and then picked out while still alive and then sacrificed in the usual manner with the heart being cut out, and you can tell that he really wanted get the fine details of people being in agony in there. Also, in my copy the end notes get real passive aggressive sometimes, there's a good one when he's talking about how the natives of New Britain have a custom that a man can't speak to or interact with his mother in law or terrible things will happen, and the note explains that New Britain is in New Guinea, and then says "Frazer does not comment on the state of affairs in old Britain".
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