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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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  • mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was first published in two volumes in 1890; in...
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    societies as survivals, but he did not explain why they survived. James George Frazer (1854–1941) followed Tylor's theories to a great extent in his book...
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  • James Fraser or James Frazer may refer to: James Fraser (businessman) (c. 1760–1822), merchant, judge and politician in New Brunswick James Fraser (Lower...
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  • description of the law of contagion appeared in The Golden Bough by James George Frazer. Pseudoscientists, Bonewits and Bonewits have claimed parallels in...
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    tragic death. The late nineteenth-century Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer wrote extensively about Adonis in his monumental study of comparative...
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    him had fifty daughters who are equated by some scholars (such as James George Frazer or H. J. Rose) with the fifty months of the Olympiad.[need quotation...
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    the Wayback Machine Apollodorus, Epitome 3.33; translation, Sir James George Frazer. Volume 5 p. 80[full citation needed] Demetrius (2nd century BC)...
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    Epitome 7.24 Hesiod, Theogony 1011 See Hesiod, Theogony 1019, Sir James George Frazer in his notes to Apollodorus, Epitome 7.24, says that these verses...
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  • James George Frazer in The Golden Bough in Chapter XXVIII, "The Killing of the Tree Spirit" in the section "The Battle of Summer and Winter". Frazer drew...
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