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James George Frazer

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According to Wikipedia, 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. Personal life He was born on 1 January 1854 in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Katherine Brown and Daniel F. Frazer, a chemist.

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James George Frazer's Published Works

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The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion (542)
Pausanias's Description of Greece (173)
Totemism And Exogamy (103)
Folk-lore in the Old Testament (56)
Folklore in the Old Testament Studies in Comparative Religion Legend and Law (1919) (55)
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead (1914) (53)
The magic art and the evolution of kings (40)
The Golden Bough. Part I: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings. Part II: Taboo and the Perils of the Soul. Part III: The Dying God (17)
Psyche's task;: A discourse concerning the influence of superstition on the growth of institutions (16)
The worship of nature (1926) (15)
Aftermath: a Supplement to The Golden Bough.@@@The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion. (1937) (14)
Ovid's fasti (1932) (14)
Observations on Central Australian Totemism (10)
Magic and Religion (10)
Questions on the Manners, Customs, Religion, Superstitions, &c. of Uncivilized or Semi-Civilized Peoples (9)
Balder the beautiful : the fire-festivals of Europe and the doctrine of the external soul (8)
Creation and evolution in primitive cosmogonies,: And other pieces (1935) (7)
The Legend of Narcissus (6)
The Abridged Edition of Frazer's Golden Bough@@@The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (1924) (5)
Howitt and Fison (1909) (5)
Man, God, and Immortality: Thoughts on Human Progress (1942) (4)
Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History (4)
The native races of Africa and Madagascar (1938) (4)
96. Not to Seethe a Kid in Its Mother's Milk. (3)
Condorcet on the progress of the human mind (1933) (3)
Some Popular Superstitions of the Ancients (1890) (3)
Notes on the Aborigines of Australia (3)
The Library, Volume I: Books 1-3.9 (Loeb Classical Library #121) (3)
90. The Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. (1920) (3)
Folk-Lore at Balquhidder (3)
The Pre-Persian Temple on the Acropolis (1893) (3)
The belief among the aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia (1913) (2)
Statues of Three Kings of Dahomey (2)
Spencer's Last Journey: being the Journal of an Expedition to Tierra del Fuego by the late Sir Baldwin Spencer; with a Memoir (1932) (2)
The Frazer Lectures, 1922–1932 (1932) (2)
Spencer's Last Journey, Being the Journal of an Expedition to Tierra Del Fuego (1931) (2)
48. The Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. (1920) (2)
Swallows in the House (1891) (2)
First aid to the servantless (2)
The growth of Plato's ideal theory : an essay (2)
“Straw-Bear Tuesday.” (1909) (2)
Address to Sir James George Frazer, LL.D., D.C.L., Litt.D., on the occasion of the foundation, in his honour, of the Frazer lectureship in social anthropology in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, and Liverpool (1)
39. Anthropological Research in Northern Australia (1)
Beliefs and Customs of the Australian Aborigines (1909) (1)
111. South African Totemism. (1)
The Native Races of America (1940) (1)
The Worship of Nature. Volume I (1)
The Leafy Bust at Nemi (1908) (1)
11. The Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa (1920) (1)
A Witches Ladder (1)
The native races of Asia and Europe (1939) (1)
Canon John Roscoe (1932) (1)
The native races of Australasia including Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, New Guinea and Indonesia : a copious selection of passages for the study of social anthropology from the manuscript notebooks of Sir James George Frazer (1939) (1)
The magical origin of kings (1)
The Youth of Achilles (1893) (0)
Shorter Notices (1926) (0)
THE SCAPEGOAT: THE GOLDEN BOUGH. Part VI (1914) (0)
The Month of March (1942) (0)
Kentish Folk-lore. (1919) (0)
Internet Applications ROAD MAP FOR PART SIX Chapter 21 Network Security (0)
A Bibliography of Sir James George Frazer, OM (1934) (0)
The Native Races of Africa and Madagascar. A Selection of Passages from the Notebooks of Sir James George Frazer (1939) (0)
Asinette : a French story for English children (1922) (0)
The Reconstruction of South-Eastern Europe (0)
The enigma of Jesus/ by Paul Louis Couchoud ; translated by Winifred Whale (Winifred Stephens) ; with an introduction by Sir James Frazer (0)
Plataea (1898) (0)
Selected Passages : from his works (0)
Some Folk-Lore of Ferns (0)
Passages of the Bible (1932) (0)
37. Negative Magic. (0)
86. Beliefs and Customs of the Australian Aborigines. (0)
Greece and Rome : a selection from the works of Sir James George Frazer, O.M. (1937) (0)
Essays of Joseph Addison : chosen and edited with a preface and a few notes (0)
Mr. Frazer's Pausanias@@@Pausanias' 'Description of Greece' (1898) (0)
The Land of the Ibibios, Southern Nigeria: Discussion (1914) (0)
The Native Races of Australasia, Including... Indonesia. A Selection of Passages from the Notebooks of Sir James George Frazer (1939) (0)
129. Men's Language and Women's Language. (0)
Apollodorus The Library Volume Ii (0)
22. Milk Customs of the Todas. (1919) (0)
The native races of Asia and Europe : an anthological study (1939) (0)
8. The Australian Marriage Laws. (0)

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