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- Sir James George Frazer OM FRS FRSE FBA (/ ˈfreɪzər /; 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
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Sir James George Frazer OM FRS FRSE FBA [1] (/ ˈ f r eɪ z ər /; 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist [2] influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
Sir James George Frazer was a British anthropologist, folklorist, and classical scholar, best remembered as the author of The Golden Bough. From an academy in Helensburgh, Dumbarton, Frazer went to Glasgow University (1869), entered Trinity College, Cambridge (1874), and became a fellow (1879).
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (retitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion in its second edition) is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer.
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James George Frazer was born on January 1, 1854, in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Daniel F. Frazer, a partner in a long-established drug and chemical firm, and the former Katherine Brown. He grew...
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The study of mythology and religion was Frazier’s area of expertise. Although he was far from being the first to study religions dispassionately, as a cultural phenomenon rather than from within theology, he was among the first to notice the relationship between myths and rituals. His greatest work, The Golden Bough—the study of ancient cults, rite...
Frazer’s work, particularly the The Golden Bough, influenced numerous scholars and writers. Both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung used The Golden Bough as a source book in their own work on religion, although they took it in almost totally different directions. Jung took Frazer’s observations as a stepping-stone to his spiritually oriented theory of the...
Frazer, James G. & George W. Stocking. [1890] 1998. The Golden Bough: Abridged Edition. Penguin Classics. ISBN 0140189319Frazer, James. G. [1900] 2012. Pausanias and Other Greek Sketches. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1108047517Frazer, James G. [1906] 2006. Adonis Attis Osiris: Studies in the History of Oriental Religion. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 1425499910Frazer, James G. [1910] 2000. Totemism and Exogamy. Routledge-Curzon. ISBN 0700713387Ackerman, Robert. 2002. The Myth and Ritual School: J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415939638Downie, Angus R. 1940. James George Frazer: The Portrait of a Scholar. Watts & Co. ASIN B00165RXSUTylor, Edward B. [1871] 1974. Primitive culture: researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, art, and custom. Gordon Press. ISBN 0879680911All links retrieved May 29, 2023. 1. Sir James Frazer NNDB 2. Works by James Frazer Project Gutenberg 3. James George Frazer The Gifford Lectures
Nov 29, 2018 · James George Frazer was the son of a prosperous Scottish pharmacist. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and attended Cambridge University for graduate studies in classics. His father was a staunch member of the Free Church of Scotland, but in the son religiosity never “took.”
May 23, 2018 · Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941), a British classicist and anthropologist, was the author of "The Golden Bough," a classic study of magic and religion. It popularized anthropology. James Frazer was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on Jan. 1, 1854.
