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'''James George Frazer'''
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AI Council 1889 Member<br />AI Council 1902 Member<br />AI Council 1903 Member<br />AI Council 1904 Member<br />AI Council 1918 Member<br />AI Council 1919 Member<br />AI Council 1920 Member<br />AI Council 1921 Vice President<br />AI Council 1922 Vice President<br />AI Council 1923 Vice President
=== House Notes ===
1885.03.24 proposed for election at the next meeting<br />1914 HML This year the medal was awarded to Dr (now Sir) J.G. Frazer, but owing to peculiar circumstances he has as yet been unable to deliver his lecture<br />1916 HML Ancient stories of a great flood. Sir James George Frazer Delivered 14th Nov. in the Theatre of the Civil Service Commissioners, Burlington House, attendance was about 200<br />death noted in Report of the Council 1940-1941
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Sir James George Frazer OM FRS[1] FRSE FBA (/ˈfreɪzər/; 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.[2] He is often considered one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology.<br />His most famous work, The Golden Bough (1890), documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe. Frazer posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science.<br /><br />Born Glasgow; died Cambridge. Fellow of Trinity, Cambridge from 1879. First British Chair in Social Anthropology, Liverpool 1809. Knighted 1914. Order of Merit 1925. Honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, St Andrews, Manchester, Durham, Manchester, Athens, Paris, Strasbourg. See separate ODNB entry for his wife, Frazer, Lilly.<br />
