Author:James George Frazer

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James George Frazer (1854–1941)

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M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D. Professor of Social Anthropology. Liverpool University. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Fellow of the British Academy. Author of The Golden Bough;&c

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This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB9 by the initials "J. G. Fr."

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "J. G. Fr."

James George Frazer

Works

• Totemism (1887)
• The Golden Bough
  • First edition (1890 – two volumes) subtitled A Study in Comparative Religion
  • Second edition (1900 – three volumes) subtitled A Study in Magic and Religion
  • Third edition (1906–1915 – twelve volumes)
  • Abridged edition (1922 – one volume) (transcription project)
• Pausanias's Description of Greece (translation and commentary) (1897) (external scan)
• Psyche's Task (1909)
• Totemism and Exogamy (1910)
• The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead (3 volumes) (1913-24)
• Folk-lore in the Old Testament (1918)
• Apollodorus: the Library (1921)

Contributions to EB9

• “Taboo” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).
• “Theseus” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).
• “Thesmophoria” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).
• “Totemism” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).

Contributions to EB1911

• "Penates," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Praefect," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Praeneste," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Praetor," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Proserpine," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Province," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Saturn (god)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Thesmophoria," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Contributions to Folk-Lore

• "A Witch's Ladder" in The Folk-Lore Journal, 5 (1887), pp. 81−83
• "A South African Red Riding Hood" in The Folk-Lore Journal, 7 (1889), pp. 167−168
• "Some Popular Superstitions of the Ancients" in Folk-Lore, 1 (1890), pp. 145−171
• "Howitt and Fison" in Folk-Lore, 20 (1909), pp. 144−180
• "The Cursing of Venezelos" in Folk-Lore, 28 (1917), pp. 133−140
• "The Killing of the Khazar Kings" in Folk-Lore, 28 (1917), pp. 382−407
• "Kentish Folk-Lore" in Folk-Lore, 30 (1919), p. 317
• "Garo Marriages" in Folk-Lore, 32 (1921), pp. 202−209

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "The Primitive Ghost and his Relations" in Popular Science Monthly, 27 (September 1885)

Works about Frazer

• "Frazer, James George, LL.D., D.C.L.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)

Reviews on Folk-Lore

• "Folk-lore in the Old Testament" by Moses Gaster in Folk-Lore, 30 (1919), pp. 71−76
• "The Interpretation of Survivals" by William Crooke in Folk-Lore, 30 (1919), pp. 132−133
• "Folk-Lore in the Old Testament" by Thomas Nelson Annandale in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920), pp. 142−144
• "Review/Sir Roger de Coverley and other Literary Pieces" by James Drummond Anderson in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920), p. 257