Selected letters of Sir J.G. Frazer / edited by Robert Ackerman.

By:

Frazer, James George, 1854-1941

Contributor(s):

Ackerman, Robert, 1935-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 426 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1429421835
9781429421836
9780191514814
0191514810

Uniform titles:

Correspondence. Selections

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Selected letters of Sir J.G. Frazer.DDC classification:

301/.092 B 22

LOC classification:

BL303.6.F73 A4 2005eb

Other classification:

11.01
LB 27800 F848

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

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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.

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