J. G. Frazer (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Ackerman
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1854-1941
- Setting: Cambridge, England
- Principal Characters: Sir James George Frazer, Elizabeth “Lilly” De Boys Grove Frazer
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, History, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Science or scientists, 1940’s, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, England or English people, Anthropology or anthropologists, Learning or scholarship, Victorian era or Victorianism, 1900’s
- Locales: Cambridge, England
It would be difficult to find a modern anthropologist, archaeologist, classicist, or religionist who has not encountered and been influenced by the enormous body of works written by Sir James George Frazer. His 1898 translation and commentary of Pausanias’ Periēgēsis tēs Hellados (c. 150 c.e.; Description of Greece) which fills six thick quarto-sized volumes bound in characteristic forest green, and his magnum opus which ensured recognition of comparative anthropology as a scholarly discipline, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (1890), the third...
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