James 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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Glasgow
- Educated at
- University of CambridgeUniversity of Glasgow
- Awards
- 🏆 Order of Merit🏆 Huxley Memorial Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 William Robertson Smith
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Trending topics shown first"With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the…"
"From time immemorial the mistletoe has been the object of superstitious veneration in Europe."
"I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic."
"We seem to move on a thin crust which may at any moment be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering below."
"If we analyze the principles of thought on which magic is based, they will probably be found to resolve themselves into two: first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and,…"
"In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, o…"
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Timeline
1854
Born
Birth1941
Died
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