J.G. Frazer : his life and work /

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Author / Creator:Ackerman, Robert, 1935-
Imprint:Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Description:x, 348 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/852527
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ISBN:0521340934
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 313-340.
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Frazer and intellectual biography
  • 1. Childhood and youth
  • 2. Trinity undergraduate
  • 3. The vista of anthropology
  • 4. Pausanias and Robertson Smith
  • 5. Mythography and ambivalence
  • 6. The Golden Bough
  • 7. Smith dies; Frazer marries
  • 8. Pausanias's Description of Greece
  • 9. Baldwin Spencer, Andrew Lang, and Edmund Gosse
  • 10. The second edition
  • 11. The Hebrew world
  • 12. Lectures on Kingship and Liverpool
  • 13. Frazer and his critic Marett
  • 14. The third edition
  • 15. Honor to the king
  • 16. Return to the classics
  • 17. Aftermath
  • Appendix 1. Additions to Besterman's bibliography
  • Appendix 2. Frazer's notebooks Bibliographic notes Abbreviations
  • Notes Index