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Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R7,529
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Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer (Hardcover, New): Robert Ackerman

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

Robert Ackerman

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2005
First published: December 2005
Editors: Robert Ackerman
Dimensions: 242 x 164 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 436
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926696-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Myths & mythology
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Folklore
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Myths & mythology
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LSN: 0-19-926696-4
Barcode: 9780199266968

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