Name: Selected Letters of sir j. G. Frazer
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Author: J. G. Frazer
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Physical Book

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Author

J. G. Frazer

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0199266964

ISBN13

9780199266968

Synopsis "Selected Letters of sir j. G. Frazer "

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.

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