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Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer (Hardcover, New)
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Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer (Hardcover, New)
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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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