"The whole work is very methodical and sticks closely to the fully quoted documentary evidence in a way that would have been unfamiliar to the late Sir James Frazer
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James George Frazer
Sir James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
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culture · Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist (1854–1941) · anthropologist · writer · historian · mythographer · classical scholar · theologian · folklorist · ethnologist · ethnographer · linguist · also James George Frazer, J.G. Frazer, Sir James George Frazer, J. G. Frazer, James Frazer, Frazer
Born 1 January 1854 · Died 7 May 1941 · Q151936
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s deliberate use of Judeo-Christian terminology in the place of native terminology was not to make native cultures seem less strange, but rather to make Christianity seem more strange and barbaric. Selected works Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies, and Other Pieces (1935) The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion (1933–36) Condorcet on the Progress of the Human Mind (1933) Garnered Sheaves (1931) The Growth of Plato
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1941· 3 entries
Died 1941-05-07.
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“The world cannot live at the level of its great men.”
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“If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.”
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1935· 1 entry
“s deliberate use of Judeo-Christian terminology in the place of native terminology was not to make native cultures seem less strange, but rather to make Christianity seem more strange and barbaric. Selected works Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies, and Other Pieces (1935) The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion (1933–36) Condorcet on the Progress of the Human Mind (1933) Garnered Sheaves (1931) The Growth of Plato”
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1922· 1 entry
With some controversial material on Christianity excluded from the text
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1921· 2 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1921).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1921).
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1920· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1920).
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1916· 1 entry
Won Huxley Memorial Medal (1916).
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1915· 1 entry
And ran to twelve volumes, with a supplemental thirteenth volume added in 1936
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1914· 1 entry
And a public lectureship in social anthropology at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Glasgow and Liverpool was established in his honour in 1921
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1896· 3 entries
Frazer married Elizabeth "Lilly" Grove, a writer whose father was from Alsace
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In 1896 Frazer married Elizabeth "Lilly" Grove, a writer whose father was from Alsace.
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And his new wife perceived that Frazer's reputation was not equal to his abilities
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1854· 1 entry
Born 1854-01-01.
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