Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer. Edited by Robert Ackerman
This volume makes available a large number of letters to and from James Frazer (1854–1941), as well as a few to and from his far less diffident (or, as Ackermann puts it, his ‘academic dragon’) wife, Elizabeth (Lilly), who acted as his agent and manager (e.g. p. 301). They chart the personal history...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 448-450 |
| Review of: | Selected letters of Sir J. G. Frazer (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2005) (Chapman, Mark D.)
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| Summary: | This volume makes available a large number of letters to and from James Frazer (1854–1941), as well as a few to and from his far less diffident (or, as Ackermann puts it, his ‘academic dragon’) wife, Elizabeth (Lilly), who acted as his agent and manager (e.g. p. 301). They chart the personal history of Frazer’s own struggles to establish himself as a scholar, as well as his efforts to further the nascent discipline of anthropology—his fame and success came relatively late in life when he was already something of an anachronism in anthropology (as the letters between Malinowski and Frazer indicate). Given that there are no Frazerian purists, as the editor notes, this collection will be of interest primarily to intellectual historians rather than practising classicists and anthropologists. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp128 |