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− | Sir '''James George Frazer''' (1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. He is often considered one of the | + | Sir '''James George Frazer''' (1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. He is often considered one of the founders of modern anthropology. |
− | His most | + | His most influential work, ''The Golden Bough'' (1890), documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs across the globe. Frazer posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science. |
==Literature== | ==Literature== | ||
− | * [ | + | * [http://archive.org/download/totemism00frazuoft/totemism00frazuoft.pdf ''Totemism''], 1887 |
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=zO4MAAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8 ''Folk-lore in the Old Testament''], 1918, 1919 | * [http://books.google.com/books?id=zO4MAAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8 ''Folk-lore in the Old Testament''], 1918, 1919 | ||
* ''The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead'', 3 vols, 1913–24 | * ''The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead'', 3 vols, 1913–24 | ||
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== Links== | == Links== | ||
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_George_Frazer | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_George_Frazer | ||
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Revision as of 15:01, 5 December 2014
Sir James George Frazer (1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. He is often considered one of the founders of modern anthropology.
His most influential work, The Golden Bough (1890), documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs across the globe. Frazer posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science.
Literature
- Totemism, 1887
- Folk-lore in the Old Testament, 1918, 1919
- The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, 3 vols, 1913–24
- The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and Religion, 1st edition, 1890; 2nd edition: expanded to 6 volumes, 1900; 3rd edition: 12 volumes (1906–15; 1936), 1922 one-volume [1][2].
- La Rama Dorada. Magia y religión, trans. Elizabeth Y Tadeo I. Campuzano, México & Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1944. (in Spanish)
- Pausanias, and other Greek sketches, 1900
- Psyche's Task, 1909
- Totemism and Exogamy, 1910