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The Sir James George Frazer Memorial Lectureship in Social Anthropology is a British academic lecture series.

In 1920 a sum of £675 was raised by a committee of the University of Cambridge for the purpose of commemorating Sir James Frazer's contributions to learning. In accordance with the wishes of the subscribers, a Frazer Lectureship in Anthropology was founded, the annual income of the fund being assigned to the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Glasgow and University of Liverpool in rotation for this purpose.

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Frazer Lecture

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The Sir James George Frazer Memorial Lectureship in Social Anthropology is a British academic lecture series. In 1920 a sum of £675 was raised by a committee...

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The Golden Bough

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beings to whom man appeals for help and protection." Frazer included an extract from Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (1832). The Golden Bough...

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James George Frazer

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Sir James George Frazer OM FRS FRSE FBA (/ˈfreɪzər/; 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the...

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John Henry Hutton

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the silver medal of the Royal Society of Arts in 1932. He gave the Frazer Lecture in 1938. Kathleen Gough was among his doctoral students and von Fürer-Haimendorf...

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Gifford Lectures

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The Gifford Lectures (/ˈɡɪfərd/) are an annual series of lectures which were established in 1887 by the will of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford at the four...

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Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (LPR; German: Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Religion, VPR) outlines his ideas...

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Polyandry

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11, 2011. Retrieved October 14, 2010. Warren R. Dawson (ed.): The Frazer Lectures, 1922–1932. Macmillan & Co, 1932. p. 33. "Kenyan trio in 'wife-sharing'...

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William Williams

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Province of South Australia William Morgan Williams, presenter of a 1969 Frazer Lecture William Williams, character in 2006 film American Dreamz Sir William...

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Paul Rabinow

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UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology faculty page from 2015 Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 31st October 2008 (video). Linked to Frazer Lecture 2008....

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Godfrey Lienhardt

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Lienhardt. New York: Lilian Barber Press. ISBN 978-0936508238. The Frazer Lecture on the legacy of J.G.Frazer, given in Cambridge on 5 March 1992 (video)...

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No Spring for Frazer

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for a lecture on fieldcraft. Wilson enters the office, informing him that Pike and Jones are ready for him to inspect their rifles, and Frazer is ready...

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Alexandre Moret

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and in 1927 a member of the French Academy. In 1926 he delivered the Frazer Lecture at Oxford University, taking the killing of god in Egypt as his theme...

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Henry Balfour

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489–497. —. 1937 "Spinners and Weavers in Anthropological Research". Frazer Lecture, published by Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press) in 1938, pp...

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Myth and ritual

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myths." Some of these scholars (e.g., W. Robertson-Smith, James George Frazer, Jane Ellen Harrison, S. H. Hooke) supported the "primacy of ritual" hypothesis...

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Lucy Mair

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British Association for the Advancement of Science. She gave the 1967 Frazer Lecture at Cambridge University. Mair published books and papers throughout...

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Malcolm Fraser

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Military Law, and in October 2007 he presented his inaugural professorial lecture, "Finding Security in Terrorism's Shadow: The importance of the rule of...

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Gene Scott

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Board of "Rebuild L.A." Member, Philatelic Foundation of New York Betty Ann Frazer, first wife, married for twenty-three years, divorced in June 1972. Christine...

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Samhain

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involved nuts and apples. In the late 19th century, John Rhys and James Frazer suggested it had been the "Celtic New Year", but that is disputed. In the...

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Social anthropology

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precursor took shape in the work of Edward Burnett Tylor and James George Frazer in the late 19th century and underwent major changes in both method and...

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Aleksandra Kornhauser Frazer

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Aleksandra Kornhauser Frazer (26 September 1926 – 17 May 2020) was a Slovenian chemist. She was a Professor of Chemistry at the Faculty of Natural Sciences...

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Theories about religion

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insofar as they hold value and are comprehensible. The theories by Tylor and Frazer (focusing on the explanatory value of religion for its adherents), by Rudolf...

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James Cook University

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Ethiopia Harris Eyre, neuroscientist, entrepreneur and author Brentley Frazer, author Philip Freier, Anglican clergyman and current Archbishop of Melbourne...

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Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture

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The Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture is a lecture and associated medal that was created in 1900 by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain...

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The Hero with a Thousand Faces

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looked to the work of psychoanalyst Otto Rank and ethnographers James George Frazer and Franz Boas. Campbell was a noted scholar of James Joyce, having co-authored...

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John Fries Frazer

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John Fries Frazer (8 July 1812 – 12 October 1872) was a University of Pennsylvania graduate and first assistant geologist to the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania...

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Ian Constable Lecture

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Antigen' 2011: The 2011 Lecture was delivered on 17 October at the University of WA's Octagon Theatre by Professor Ian Frazer, CEO of the Translational...

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Theistic rationalism

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11–12; also Frazer, The Religious Beliefs of America's Founders: Reason, Revelation, Revolution (University Press of Kansas, 2012) Frazer, "The Political...

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William Robertson Smith

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eminent scholars and well-known authors such as J.J. Bachofen, James George Frazer, Frederick Engels, and in the 20th century Robert Graves, Carl Jung, Joseph...

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Freemasonry

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November 2013 "Current members" CLIPSAS, retrieved 14 November 2014 Antonia Frazer, The Weaker Vessel, Mandarin paperbacks, 1989, pp. 108–109 for example,...

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