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...
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mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was first published in two volumes in 1890; in...
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Theories about religion (section James George Frazer)
societies as survivals, but he did not explain why they survived. James George Frazer (1854–1941) followed Tylor's theories to a great extent in his book...
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James George Frazer in The Golden Bough in Chapter XXVIII, "The Killing of the Tree Spirit" in the section "The Battle of Summer and Winter". Frazer drew...
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James Fraser or James Frazer may refer to: James Fraser (businessman) (c. 1760–1822), merchant, judge and politician in New Brunswick James Fraser (Lower...
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the king. The iNkatha was also renewed. The Scottish mythographer James George Frazer speculated that this reflected an ancient practice of sacrificing...
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Epitome 7.24 Hesiod, Theogony 1011 See Hesiod, Theogony 1019, Sir James George Frazer in his notes to Apollodorus, Epitome 7.24, says that these verses...
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"Idomeneus"; cf., however, Apollodorus, The Library, ed. and trans. Sir James George Frazer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921), Vol. 2, 394-5 (https://babel...
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There are similar mid-winter wren ceremonies in parts of France. James George Frazer describes in The Golden Bough a wren-hunting ritual in Carcassonne...
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26–30 Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press;...
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the Wayback Machine Apollodorus, Epitome 3.33; translation, Sir James George Frazer. Volume 5 p. 80[full citation needed] Demetrius (2nd century BC)...
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challengers. The priesthood played a major role in the mythography of James George Frazer in The Golden Bough; his interpretation has exerted a lasting influence...
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Folklore in the Old Testament (category Books by James George Frazer)
Religion, Legend, and Law is a 1918 book by the anthropologist Sir James George Frazer, in which the author compares episodes in the Old Testament with...
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Fasti translated by James G. Frazer. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti. Sir James George Frazer. London; Cambridge...
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him had fifty daughters who are equated by some scholars (such as James George Frazer or H. J. Rose) with the fifty months of the Olympiad.[need quotation...
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the English poets Tennyson and even Swinburne.[citation needed] James George Frazer remarks that Callimachus' account "probably followed Pherecydes"...
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Sacred king (section Frazer's interpretation)
used as a scapegoat for disasters such as famine and drought. Sir James George Frazer used the concept of the sacred king in his study The Golden Bough...
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Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press;...
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808 Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press;...
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Fasti translated by James G. Frazer. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti. Sir James George Frazer. London; Cambridge...
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it. Bibliotheke 3.1.4. Apparently a quotation, according to Sir James George Frazer, (Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation, 1921), commenting...
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7.38 Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press;...
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Fasti translated by James G. Frazer. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti. Sir James George Frazer. London; Cambridge...
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14.7 Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press;...
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Frazer Simpson Frederick Hines (born 22 September 1944) is an English actor. He began his career as a child actor and appeared in A King in New York (1957)...
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description of the law of contagion appeared in The Golden Bough by James George Frazer. Pseudoscientists, Bonewits and Bonewits have claimed parallels in...
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tragic death. The late nineteenth-century Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer wrote extensively about Adonis in his monumental study of comparative...
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Fasti translated by James G. Frazer. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti. Sir James George Frazer. London; Cambridge...
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Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press;...
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