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Author Frazer, James George, 1854-1941.

Title Selected letters of Sir J.G. Frazer / edited by Robert Ackerman
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 426 pages)
Contents General introduction -- Before The golden bough, 1875-90 -- Anthropology and the classics, 1890-1900 -- The third edition, 1901-15 -- After The golden bough, 1916-31
Summary This is a fully annotated edition of selected letters by (and in some cases to) Sir J.G. Frazer (1854-1941), the eminent anthropologist, classicist, and historian of religion. "Frazer" was read by virtually everyone working in those fields in the first third of the twentieth century. His great work, "The Golden Bough", offered a grand vision of humanity's mental and spiritual evolution - from vain attempts to compel the gods to do our bidding (which Frazer called magic) through equally vain attempts to propitiate the gods through prayer and sacrifice (his characterization of religion) to rationality and science. His richly varied correspondence with prominent figures such as Edmund Gosse, A.E. Housman, and Bronislaw Malinowski, among others, offers an unparalleled insight into British intellectual life of the time, and also throws light upon the composition of "The Golden Bough" itself
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Frazer, James George, 1854-1941 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Frazer, James George, 1854-1941 fast
Subject Mythologists -- Correspondence
Mythologists -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Mythologists
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Mythology, Comparative.
Genre/Form Biographies
Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
Author Ackerman, Robert, 1935-
ISBN 1429421835
9781429421836
9780191514814
0191514810
Other Titles Correspondence. Selections