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Author Ackerman, Robert, 1935-

Title J.G. Frazer : his life and work / Robert Ackerman
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987

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Description x, 348 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Frazer and intellectual biography -- 1. Childhood and youth -- 2. Trinity undergraduate -- 3. The vista of anthropology -- 4. Pausanias and Robertson Smith -- 5. Mythography and ambivalence -- 6. The Golden Bough -- 7. Smith dies Frazer marries -- 8. Pausanias's Description of Greece -- 9. Baldwin Spencer, Andrew Lang, and Edmund Gosse -- 10. The second edition -- 11. The Hebrew world -- 12. Lectures on Kingship and Liverpool -- 13. Frazer and his critic Marett -- 14. The third edition -- 15. Honor to the king -- 16. Return to the classics -- 17. Aftermath -- Appendix 1 Additions to Besterman's bibliography -- Appendix 2 Frazer's notebooks -- Bibliographic notes -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index
Analysis Myths Frazer, Sir James George, 1854-1941
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 313-340
Subject Frazer, James George, 1854-1941.
Anthropologists -- England -- Biography.
Anthropologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Classicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Religion historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Anthropology.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Besterman, Theodore, 1904-1976. Bibliography of Sir James George Frazer
Frazer, James George, 1854-1941.
LC no. 87009343
ISBN 0521340934