Frazer Lecture

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The Sir James George Frazer Memorial Lectureship in Social Anthropology

In the year 1920 a sum of £675 was raised by a Committee of the University of Cambridge for the purpose of commemorating Sir James Frazer’s contributions to learning. In accordance with the wishes of the subscribers, a Frazer Lectureship in Anthropology was founded, the annual income of the fund being assigned to the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Glasgow and University of Liverpool in rotation for this purpose.


Contents

[edit] Lectures

[edit] Oxford Lectures

Date Lecturer Title Publication
May 17, 1922 Edwin Sidney Hartland The evolution of kinship: an African study ISBN 0848603087
May 27, 1926 Alexandre Moret La mise à mort du Dieu en Égypte ISBN 0848603087
Feb 22, 1930 Paul Rivet Les Océaniens[1] ISBN 0848603087
May 10, 1934 Herbert Jennings Rose Concerning parallels WorldCat
May 23, 1938 John Henry Hutton A primitive philosophy of life WorldCat
May 5, 1942 Richard MacGillivray Dawkins Soul and body in the folklore of modern Greece JSTOR
May 1, 1947 Herbert John Fleure Some aspects of British civilization WorldCat
Nov 21, 1950 Henri 'Hans' Frankfort The problem of similarity in ancient Near-Eastern religions WorldCat
Oct 28, 1954 Isaac Schapera The sin of Cain JSTOR
Oct 30, 1958 Louis Dumont Le renoncement dans les religions de l’Inde ISBN 0226169634
Oct 30, 1962 (William) Keith Chambers Guthrie The lesser world: some implications of the microcosmic view of man in Greek thought WorldCat
Oct 18, 1966 Denise Paulme-Schaeffner Sur deux thèmes d’origine de la mort en Afrique occidentale JSTOR
Nov 19, 1970 Claude Lévi-Strauss Myth and ritual ISBN 0226474968 audio
Dec 3, 1974 Geoffrey Stephen Kirk Adonis: a demi-god still divided Unpublished
Nov 30, 1978 James Littlejohn Magic boughs Unpublished
Oct 28, 1982 Sir Edmund Ronald Leach Kingship and divinity manuscript
May 7, 1987 Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd Early Greek science and the limits of rationality ISBN 0521366801
Nov 6, 1991 David John Parkin Nemi in the modern world: return of the exotic? JSTOR
May 16, 1996 Nancy D. Munn Excluded spaces: the figure in the Australian Aboriginal landscape JSTOR
May 9, 2000 John David Yeadon Peel Time and difference in the anthropology of religion Unpublished
Sep 17, 2005 [2] Veena Das Ethics of the ordinary: figures of life and law in the context of urban poverty

[edit] Cambridge Lectures

Date Lecturer Title Publication
Nov 26, 1923 John Roscoe Immigrants and their influence in the lake region of Central Africa ISBN 0848603087
Mar 2, 1927 Robert Ranulph Marett The diffusion of culture ISBN 0848603087
Nov 26, 1931 Sir Arthur John Evans The earlier religion of Greece in the light of Cretan discoveries ISBN 0848603087
May 14, 1935 Alan Henderson Gardiner The attitude of the ancient Egyptians to death and the dead Worldcat
Feb 24, 1939 Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown Taboo [3] WorldCat
May 26, 1943 John Linton Myres Mediterranean culture WorldCat
May 13, 1948 Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard The divine kingship of the Shilluk of the Nilotic Sudan WorldCat
May 14, 1952 Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf The after-life in Indian tribal belief JSTOR
Mar 7, 1955 Raymond William Firth The fate of the soul: an interpretation of some primitive concepts WorldCat
Mar 5, 1959 (Mary) Monica Wilson Divine kings and the ‘breath of men’ WorldCat
May 6, 1963 Kenneth Lindsay Little Voluntary associations and African social change ISBN 0521092639
Mar 10, 1967 Lucy Philip Mair Witchcraft and sorcery ISBN 030374622X
Nov 18, 1971 Frederick Russell Eggan The rituals of headhunting in the mountain province, Philippines manuscript
Mar 5, 1976 (Margaret) Mary Douglas Mistletoe WorldCat
Apr 30, 1982 Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas Some reflections of the nature of the caste hierarchy Sage
Oct 14, 1983 Fredrik Barth Symbol, worldview and creativity in some Inner New Guinea religious traditions ISBN 0521342791
Oct 30, 1987 Robin Horton Back to Frazer? ISBN 0521360870
Mar 5, 1992 [4] (Ronald) Godfrey Lienhardt Frazer’s anthropology: science and sensibility JASO 24(1):1-12. video
Nov 22, 1996 (Antony Francis) 'Alfred' Gell Royal ritual and coercive deference in Central India JSTOR
May 11, 2001 Christopher Michael Hann Creeds, cultures and the 'witchery of music' Blackwell
May 6, 2004 Clifford James Geertz Shifting aims, moving targets: on the anthropology of religion [5] Blackwell audio

[edit] Glasgow Lectures

Date Lecturer Title Publication
1924 William James Perry The age of the gods ISBN 0848603087
Sep 7, 1928 [6] Edward Alexander Westermarck The study of popular sayings ISBN 0848603087
Mar 4, 1932 Sir Arthur Keith The Aryan theory as it stands to-day ISBN 0848603087
Feb 4, 1936 Warren Royal Dawson The magicians of pharaoh JSTOR
1940 William Reginald Halliday The riddle of Apollo
Apr 18, 1944 Morris Ginsberg Moral progress WorldCat
Dec 6, 1948 Alexander Murray Macbeath The relationship of primitive morality and religion WorldCat
Apr 28, 1953 (Herman) Max Gluckman Rituals of rebellion in South-East Africa ISBN 0415329833
Nov 28, 1957 Meyer Fortes The idea of destiny in West African religions WorldCat
1959 John George Peristiany Honour
Mar 9, 1967 Ian George Cunnison Analysis of an interregnum in the dynasty of the Eastern Lunda Unpublished
Jan 29, 1969 Eric Robertson Dodds Greek anthropology and the idea of progress ISBN 0198143702
1972 No appointment
Feb 28, 1977 Ernest André Gellner A theory of nationalism JSTOR
Apr 22, 1981 Peter Maurice Worsley Straw men and ideal types: non-Western medical systems JSTOR
Apr 24, 1985 Gilbert Lewis The look of magic JSTOR
Apr 18, 1990 [7] Peter John Ucko Whose culture is it anyway? Sage
Dec 7, 1993 Alexander Fenton The food of the gods (Prestige, hunger and charity: aspects of status through food) ISBN 9780859766968
Oct 29, 1997 Paul Henley Narratives of the noble savage: history, ethnography and iconography in the construction of Amazonian alterity manuscript
Mar 5, 2002 Margaret A. Mackay Why study Scottish folklore? Unpublished
2006 No appointment

[edit] Liverpool Lectures

Date Lecturer Title Publication
Nov 27, 1925 Bronislaw Kaspar Malinowski Myth in primitive psychology ISBN 0837159547
Oct 18, 1929 Alfred Cort Haddon The religion of a primitive people ISBN 0848603087
Nov 30, 1933 Charles Gabriel Seligman Egypt and Negro Africa: a study in divine kingship ISBN 0404121381
Jan 7, 1938 Henry Balfour Spinners and weavers in anthropological research WorldCat
1941 No appointment [8]
Oct 23, 1946 Edwin Williams Smith Plans and people!: a dynamic science of man in the service of Africa WorldCat
Nov 10, 1949 (Vere) Gordon Childe Magic, craftsmanship and science WorldCat
Jun 26, 1953 (Edward) Franklin Frazier The evolution of religion among American Negroes ISBN 0805235086
Nov 20, 1956 (Cyril) Daryll Forde The context of belief: a consideration of fetishism among the Yakö WorldCat
Nov 28, 1961 (Emyr) Estyn Evans Atlantic Europe: the pastoral heritage ISBN 1874675481
Feb 3, 1966 Audrey Isabel Richards The changing world of the anthropologist manuscript
Oct 21, 1969 William Morgan Williams Ecological Models Unpublished
Nov, 1973 Alan Donald James Macfarlane Clio's task: the potential of historical anthropology Online
1978 [9] Georges Léon Émile Balandier Africanist anthropology and the problem of power Unpublished
Apr 29, 1982 Marshall David Sahlins Captain James Cook; or, the dying god ISBN 0226733572
May 1, 1986 (Ann) Marilyn Strathern Out of context: the persuasive fictions of anthropology JSTOR
Nov 1, 1990 Maurice Bloch The lessons and limitations of cognitive sciences for anthropology JSTOR
Nov, 1994 (John Rankine) 'Jack' Goody Cognitive contradictions and universals: creation and evolution in oral cultures Blackwell
Nov 20, 1998 Joanna Overing The efficacy of laughter: the ludic side of magic within Amazonian sociality ISBN 0203190041
2003 No appointment

[edit] References

  • Oxford University Gazette
  • Cambridge University Reporter
  • University of Liverpool Recorder
  • Medals, Awards, and Memorial Lecture Series in Anthropology. Yearbook of Anthropology. (1955), pp. 753-763.
  • Dawson, Warren Royal. 1932. The Frazer lectures, 1922-1932, by divers hands. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Announced in the Oxford University Gazette as Civilisations Océaniennes et Américaines.
  2. ^ Prof. Das' address was delivered in conjunction with the centenary conference at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.
  3. ^ Announced in the Cambridge University Reporter as Mana and tabu.
  4. ^ Originally listed in the Cambridge University Reporter as to be delivered on 29 Nov 1991.
  5. ^ Announced in Anthropology Today as Crossed purposes: Anthropology and the division of knowledge.
  6. ^ Professor Westermarck’s address was given as one of two Evening Discourses at the 96th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which was held in Glasgow, Sep 5-12, 1928. JSTOR
  7. ^ The delivery of Professor Ucko’s address was delayed so as to coincide with Glasgow’s celebrations as the European Capital of Culture in 1990.
  8. ^ Correspondence on the subject of the Frazer lecture notes that "all arrangements for the provision of Public Lectures by the University have been suspended". Funds for the lectureship were applied to general purposes by the emergency powers of the University.
  9. ^ Listed in the University of Liverpool Recorder for 1978 as to be delivered in Lent Term of 1978.