James George Frazer
| Sir James George Frazer MA DCL LLD Litt D | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1854 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1941 | ||||||||||
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Trinity College, Cambridge St Keynes, Cambridge [1911] 1 Brick Court, Middle Temple, EC4 [1915] Lanfine, Hills Road, Cambridge [1923] Queen Anne's Mansions, St James's Park, SW1 [1925] The Albemarle Club, 37 Dover Street, W1 [1929] Trinity College, Cambridge [1937] | ||||||||||
| Occupation | academic | ||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
AI Council 1889 Member
AI Council 1902 Member
AI Council 1903 Member
AI Council 1904 Member
AI Council 1918 Member
AI Council 1919 Member
AI Council 1920 Member
AI Council 1921 Vice President
AI Council 1922 Vice President
AI Council 1923 Vice President
House Notes
1885.03.24 proposed for election at the next meeting
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Publications
External Publications
Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogenies, and Other Pieces (1935) The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion (1933–36) Condorcet on the Progress of the Human Mind (1933) Garnered Sheaves (1931) The Growth of Plato's Ideal Theory (1930) Myths of the Origin of Fire (1930) Fasti, by Ovid (text, translation and commentary), 5 volumes (1929)
· one-volume abridgement (1931)
· revised by · G. P. Goold (1989, corr. 1996): · ISBN 0-674-99279-2
Devil's Advocate (1928) Man, God, and Immortality (1927) The Gorgon's Head and other Literary Pieces (1927) The Worship of Nature (1926) (from 1923–25 Gifford Lectures,[18]) The Library, by Apollodorus (text, translation and notes), 2 volumes (1921): ISBN 0-674-99135-4 (vol. 1); ISBN 0-674-99136-2 (vol. 2) Folk-lore in the Old Testament (1918) The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, 3 volumes (1913–24) The Golden Bough, 3rd edition: 12 volumes (1906–15; 1936)
· 1922 one-volume abridgement: · ISBN 0-486-42492-8
Totemism and Exogamy (1910) Psyche's Task (1909) The Golden Bough, 2nd edition: expanded to 6 volumes (1900) Pausanias, and other Greek sketches (1900) Description of Greece, by Pausanias (translation and commentary) (1897–) 6 volumes. The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and Religion, 1st edition (1890) Totemism (1887) Jan Harold Brunvard, American Folklore; An Encyclopedia, s.v. "Superstition" (p 692-697)
House Publications
Observations on central Australian totemism 1898
Ancient stories of a great flood [Huxley lecture] 1916