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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.

Lectures

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Dec 3, 1974	Geoffrey Stephen Kirk	Adonis: a demi-god still divided	Unpublished
Nov 30, 1978	James Littlejohn	Magic boughs	Unpublished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May 9, 2000	John David Yeadon Peel	Time and difference in the anthropology of religion	Unpublished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

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
October 31, 2008	Paul Rabinow	On the anthropology of the contemporary	video

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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

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

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.

Notes

^ Announced in the Oxford University Gazette as Civilisations Océaniennes et Américaines.
^ Prof. Das' address was delivered in conjunction with the centenary conference at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.
^ Announced in the Cambridge University Reporter as Mana and tabu.
^ Originally listed in the Cambridge University Reporter as to be delivered on 29 Nov 1991.
^ Announced in Anthropology Today as Crossed purposes: Anthropology and the division of knowledge.
^ 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
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Listed in the University of Liverpool Recorder for 1978 as to be delivered in Lent Term of 1978.

[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.

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