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

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."

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 (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
- Second edition (1900 – three volumes) subtitled A Study in Magic and Religion
- Third edition (1906–1915 – twelve volumes)
  - Part 1: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings (two volumes)
  - Part 2: Taboo and the Perils of the Soul (1911)
  - Part 3: The Dying God (1911)
  - Part 4: Adonis Attis Osiris (1906 – two volumes)
  - Part 5: Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild (1912 – two volumes)
  - Part 6: The Scapegoat (1913)
  - Part 7: Balder the Beautiful (1913 – two volumes)
  - Volume 12: Bibliography and General Index (1915)

- 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, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)
"Theseus," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)
"Thesmophoria," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)
"Totemism," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (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

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.

The author died in 1941, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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