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	James Frazer Summary
		Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941), a Scottish classicist and anthropologist, was the author of The Golden Bough, a classic study of magic and religion.
		James George Frazer, the eldest of four children, was born in preindustrial Glasgow, the son of a successful pharmacist.
		Sir James George Frazer(January 1, 1854, Glasgow, Scotland – May 7, 1941), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
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		Frazer's interest in social anthropology was aroused by reading (additional info and facts about E. Tylor) E.
		Frazer was far from being the first to study religions dispassionately, as a cultural phenomenon rather than from within theology.
		His theories of (Belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem) totemism were superseded by Claude Lévi-Strauss and his vision of the annual sacrifice of the Year King has not been borne out by field studies.
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		He was elected a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1879, and was made a professor of social anthropology at the University of Liverpool in 1907.
		Frazer's work covered a wide area of anthropological research, but he was especially interested in the study of myth and religion.
		James Dean starred in just three films before dying tragically at the age of 24, but his cultural impact remains potent today.
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	James Frazer
		Frazer did much to popularize anthropology and made its agnostic tendencies acceptable, although his conclusions are now outdated.
		James Frazer was born in Glasgow, Scotland, into a pious middle-class family, as the eldest of four children of Daniel K. Frazer, a pharmacist, and Katherine (Brown) Frazer.
		James George Frazer: The Portrait of a Scholar
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		Sir James George Frazer was a Social Anthropologist, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
		Sir James was made a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Liverpool in 1907, and continued teaching until 1922.
		He would expand it to 12 volumes in the next 25 years in a monumental exploration of the cults, legends, myths and rites of the world and their influence on the development of religion.
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	Sir James George Frazer - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frazer attended Glasgow University and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a professor and remained the rest of his life.
		In The Golden Bough (1890; enlarged to 12 vols., 1911–15), Frazer examined the evolution of modes of thought from the magical to the religious and, finally, to the scientific.
		Although his evolutionary sequence is no longer accepted, Frazer's synthesis of the new science of cultural anthropology with traditional humanistic concerns and his lively descriptions of exotic cultural beliefs and practices had a wide influence.
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	James G. Frazer + Huldrych Zwingli
		It was on this date, January 1, 1854, that British anthropologist, folklorist and author of The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer was born in Brandon Place, Glasgow, Scotland.
		The Frazer family were devout followers of the Free Church of Scotland, under whose strict doctrines James was raised.
		Downie's silence on Frazer's religious beliefs may have been in well-meaning deference to the feelings of the still-living author.
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	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| James George Frazer
		Sir James George Frazer (January 1, 1854 - May 7, 1941 EV), a social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion, was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
		Frazer's interest in social anthropology was aroused by reading E.B. Taylor's Primitive Culture (1871 EV) and encouraged by his friend, the biblical scholar W. Robertson-Smith, who was linking the Old Testament with early Hebrew folklore.
		Even his generation's choice of Darwinian evolution as a social paradigm, interpreted by Frazer as three rising stages of human progress—magic giving rise to religion, then culminating in science—has not proved valid.
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	The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer - Section 7 of 37 - Book Club/Fiction - ArcaMax Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sir Henry Piers, in his _Description of Westmeath,_ writing in 1682 says: "On May-eve, every family sets up before their door a green bush, strewed over with yellow flowers, which the meadows yield plentifully.
		At the close of the ceremonies the Green George, that is an effigy of him, is thrown into the water.
		In this custom the Green George dressed in leaves and flowers is plainly identical with the similarly disguised Green George who is associated with a tree in the Carinthian, Transylvanian, and Roumanian customs observed on the same day.
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	Sir James George Frazer
		James never liked Liverpool and soon became disgruntled, he disliked the noise and bustle of the large industrial city and longed for the tranquility, peace and quiet of tended parks and gardens in Cambridge.
		Sir James and Lady Frazer spend the war years sequester in a small flat in the Middle Temple, London to which Sir James’s nominal membership of the bar entitled him.
		Sir James was a prolific writer through the course of his lifetime, not only of books but also as a translator of old manuscript’s from Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
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		Sir James Frazer left a lasting mark on science, literature, and the history of western thought.
		Frazer's classic "The Golden Bough" may justifiably be called the foundation that modern anthropology is based on.
		Frazer shows again and again that these traditional customs and continuations of ancient rites are the basis for a religious system pre-dating any of our own.
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	Frazer, James George, Folk-Lore in the Old Testament - Satan's Bells for Freedom's Ring?
		Sir James George Frazer speak of ringing music and superstition.
		In the same tribe the god of plenty, by name Wamala, who gave increse of men and cattle and crops, was represented by a prophet, who uttered oracles in the name of the deity.
		When the prophetic fit was on him, this man wore bells on his ankles and two white calf-skins round his waist, with a row of little iron bells dangling from the lower edge of the skins." (Sir James George Frazer, Folk-Lore in the Old Testament, Macmillian, p.
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		Collected Poems by A.E., by George William Russell.
		The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot.
		The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James.
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		Sir James George Frazer 1854–1941, Scottish classicist and anthropologist, b.
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	Papers of Sir James George Frazer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fellow of Trinity College 1879-1941; Professor of Social Anthropology at Liverpool University (non-resident) 1907-22; FRS 1920; Author of The Golden Bough.
		Publications, manuscripts and proofs 1884-1948; notes and articles used for research 1894-1934; diaries of visits to Spain and Rome 1883, 1900; correspondence 1889-1940; correspondence of Lady Frazer 1902-41; notes and articles by Lady Frazer 1895-1928.
		There is further Frazer material in the additional manuscripts series, other Frazer material is catalogued as R.8.43-45, O.11.36-44 and O.11.47-48.
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	Golden Bough - Sir James George Frazer XLII Dionysus
		When they had returned to Dionysus and Bacchus forms of worship Jesus the Messiah came to bring spiritual rest "besides still waters." The burdens He came to remove is "spiritual anxiety created by religious rituals."
		To make sure that we practice "worship in spirit and in truth" as opposed to superstitious rituals, Sir James George Frazer on Dionysus identifies the signs.
		IN THE PRECEDING chapters we saw that in antiquity the civilised nations of Western Asia and Egypt pictured to themselves the changes of the seasons, and particularly the annual growth and decay of vegetation,
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	Frazer, Sir James George
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	The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer - Section 1 of 37 - Book Club/Fiction - ArcaMax Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		The Golden Bough: a study of magic and religion by Sir James George Frazer CONTENTS Preface Subject Index Chapter 1.
		Compare J. Frazer, &147;The Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa," _Man,_ xx.
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	The Golden Bough Study Guide by Sir James George Frazer
		The Golden Bough Study Guide by Sir James George Frazer
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