03077nam 2200601 450 991045813500332120200520144314.01-280-75670-50-19-151481-01-4294-2183-5(CKB)1000000000401940(StDuBDS)AH24079245(SSID)ssj0000243562(PQKBManifestationID)12040370(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243562(PQKBWorkID)10160028(PQKB)10420847(MiAaPQ)EBC430627(Au-PeEL)EBL430627(CaPaEBR)ebr11303463(CaONFJC)MIL75670(OCoLC)76943884(EXLCZ)99100000000040194020161129h20052005 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrSelected letters of Sir J. G. Frazer /edited by Robert AckermanOxford, [England] ;New York :Oxford University Press,2005.©20051 online resource (ix, 426 p.) Formerly CIP.Uk0-19-926696-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.General Introduction; I. BEFORE THE GOLDEN BOUGH, 1878-90. LETTERS; II. ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CLASSICS, 1890-1900. LETTERS; III. THE THIRD EDITIOR, 1900-15. LETTERS; IV. AFTER THE GOLDEN BOUGH, 1916-31. LETTERSThis is a collection of selected letters by (and to) Sir J.G. Frazer, the anthropologist and historian of religion, and author of 'The Golden Bough'. It offers insight into British intellectual life at the turn of the century, and illuminates the composition and reception of 'The Golden Bough' itself.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.MythologistsCorrespondenceMythologistsBiographyElectronic books.MythologistsMythologists201.3092Ackerman RobertMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458135003321Selected letters of Sir J. G. Frazer2133457UNINA