The Sir James George Frazer Memorial Lectureship in Social Anthropology

Social anthropology

Social Anthropology is one of the four or five branches of anthropology that studies how contemporary human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long-term, intensive field studies , the social organization of a particular person: customs,...

is a British academic lecture series.

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 Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

, University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

, University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...

 and University of Liverpool

University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool is a teaching and research university in the city of Liverpool, England. It is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration. Founded in 1881 , it is also one of the six original "red brick" civic...

 in rotation for this purpose.

Oxford Lectures

Date	Lecturer	Title	Publication
17 May 1922	E.S. Hartland Edwin Sidney Hartland Edwin Sidney Hartland was an author of works on folklore.His works include anthologies of tales, and theories on anthropology and mythology with an ethnological perspective. He believed that the assembling and study of persistent and widespread folklore provided a scientific insight into custom...	The evolution of kinship: an African study	ISBN 0848603087
27 May 1926	Alexandre Moret	La mise à mort du Dieu en Égypte	ISBN 0848603087
22 February 1930	Paul Rivet Paul Rivet Paul Rivet was a French ethnologist, who founded the Musée de l'Homme in 1937. He was also one of the founders of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an antifascist organization created in the wake of the February 6, 1934 far right riots.Rivet proposed a theory according to...	Les Océaniens	ISBN 0848603087
10 May 1934	H.J. Rose	Concerning parallels	WorldCat
23 May 1938	J.H. Hutton	A primitive philosophy of life	WorldCat
5 May 1942	R.M. Dawkins Richard MacGillivray Dawkins Richard MacGillivray Dawkins was a British archaeologist. He was associated with the British School at Athens, of which he became Director....	Soul and body in the folklore of modern Greece	JSTOR
1 May 1947	H.J. Fleure Herbert John Fleure Herbert John Fleure FRS , was a zoologist and geographer. He was secretary of the Geographical Association, editor of Geography, and President of the Cambrian Archaeological Association.-Early years:...	Some aspects of British civilization	WorldCat
21 November 1950	Henri Frankfort Henri Frankfort Henri 'Hans' Frankfort was a Dutch Egyptologist, archaeologist and orientalist.-Biography:Born in Amsterdam, Frankfort studied history at the University of Amsterdam and then moved to London, where in 1924, he took an MA under Sir Flinders Petrie at the University College. In 1927 he gained a...	The problem of similarity in ancient Near-Eastern religions	WorldCat
28 October 1954	Isaac Schapera Isaac Schapera Isaac Schapera, FBA, FRSSAf was Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and regarded as one of the world's leading experts in the anthropology of South African tribesmen....	The sin of Cain	JSTOR
30 October 1958	Louis Dumont Louis Dumont (anthropologist) Louis Dumont was a French anthropologist. He was an associate professor at Oxford University during the 1950s, and director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris...	Le renoncement dans les religions de l’Inde	ISBN 0226169634
30 October 1962	W.K.C. Guthrie	The lesser world: some implications of the microcosmic view of man in Greek thought	WorldCat
18 October 1966	Denise Paulme-Schaeffner	Sur deux thèmes d’origine de la mort en Afrique occidentale	JSTOR
19 November 1970	Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....	Myth and ritual	ISBN 0226474968 audio
3 December 1974	G.S. Kirk	Adonis: a demi-god still divided	Unpublished
30 November 1978	James Littlejohn	Magic boughs	Unpublished
28 October 1982	Sir Edmund Leach Edmund Leach Sir Edmund Ronald Leach was a British social anthropologist of whom it has been said:"It is no exaggeration to say that in sheer versatility, originality, and range of writing he was and still is difficult to match among the anthropologists of the English speaking world".-Personal and academic...	Kingship and divinity	manuscript
7 May 1987	G.E.R. Lloyd	Early Greek science and the limits of rationality	ISBN 0521366801
6 November 1991	David John Parkin	Nemi in the modern world: return of the exotic?	JSTOR
16 May 1996	Nancy D. Munn	Excluded spaces: the figure in the Australian Aboriginal landscape	JSTOR
9 May 2000	J.D.Y. Peel	Time and difference in the anthropology of religion	Unpublished
17 September 2005	Veena Das Veena Das Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. She also serves on the Executive Board of the Institute of Socio-Economic Research on Development and Democracy in India. She studied at the Indraprastha College for Women and Delhi School of Economics at...	Ethics of the ordinary: figures of life and law in the context of urban poverty

Cambridge Lectures

Date	Lecturer	Title	Publication
26 November 1923	John Roscoe John Roscoe John Roscoe was an Anglican missionary to East Africa. He conducted anthropological data collection of the Africans he encountered on mission.Roscoe was born in 1861, during the height of the Victorian era. Roscoe’s career heavily echoed the Victorian notion of improving natives under British...	Immigrants and their influence in the lake region of Central Africa	ISBN 0848603087
2 March 1927	R.R. Marett Robert Ranulph Marett Robert Ranulph Marett was a British ethnologist from Jersey.Exponent of the British evolutionary school, he dealt with religious ethnology. In this field he modified the evolutionary scale of religion fixed by E. B. Tylor, which placed animism in the first place...	The diffusion of culture	ISBN 0848603087
26 November 1931	Sir Arthur Evans Arthur Evans Sir Arthur John Evans FRS was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout eastern Mediterranean...	The earlier religion of Greece in the light of Cretan discoveries	ISBN 0848603087
14 May 1935	A.H. Gardiner	The attitude of the ancient Egyptians to death and the dead	Worldcat
24 February 1939	A.R. Radcliffe-Brown	Taboo	WorldCat
26 May 1943	J.L. Myres	Mediterranean culture	WorldCat
13 May 1948	E.E. Evans-Pritchard	The divine kingship of the Shilluk of the Nilotic Sudan	WorldCat
14 May 1952	Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf or Christopher von Fürer-Haimendorf was an Austrian ethnologist. He spent about forty years of his life doing fieldwork in Northeast India and in the central region of what is now the state of Andhra Pradesh and in Nepal.-Biography:Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf was...	The after-life in Indian tribal belief	JSTOR
7 March 1955	Raymond Firth	The fate of the soul: an interpretation of some primitive concepts	WorldCat
5 March 1959	Monica Wilson	Divine kings and the ‘breath of men’	WorldCat
6 May 1963	Kenneth Little	Voluntary associations and African social change	ISBN 0521092639
10 March 1967	Lucy Mair	Witchcraft and sorcery	ISBN 030374622X
18 November 1971	Fred Eggan	The rituals of headhunting in the mountain province, Philippines	manuscript
5 March 1976	Mary Douglas	Mistletoe	WorldCat
30 April 1982	M.N. Srinivas	Some reflections of the nature of the caste hierarchy	Sage
14 October 1983	Fredrik Barth Fredrik Barth Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth is a Norwegian social anthropologist who has published several ethnographic books with a clear formalistic view...	Symbol, worldview and creativity in some Inner New Guinea religious traditions	ISBN 0521342791
30 October 1987	Robin Horton	Back to Frazer?	ISBN 0521360870
5 March 1992	Godfrey Lienhardt	Frazer’s anthropology: science and sensibility	JASO 24(1):1-12. video
22 November 1996	Alfred Gell	Royal ritual and coercive deference in Central India	JSTOR
11 May 2001	Chris Hann	Creeds, cultures and the 'witchery of music'	Blackwell
6 May 2004	Clifford Geertz	Shifting aims, moving targets: on the anthropology of religion	Blackwell audio
31 October 2008	Paul Rabinow Paul Rabinow Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California , Director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory , and former Director of Human Practices for the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center...	On the anthropology of the contemporary	video

Glasgow Lectures

Date	Lecturer	Title	Publication
1924	W.J. Perry William James Perry William James Perry , usually known as W. J. Perry, was a leader in cultural anthropology at University College, London.Megalith culture, according to him, was transmitted to the rest of the world from Egypt....	The age of the gods	ISBN 0848603087
7 September 1928	E.A. Westermarck	The study of popular sayings	ISBN 0848603087
4 March 1932	Sir Arthur Keith Arthur Keith Sir Arthur Keith was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, who became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London...	The Aryan theory as it stands to-day	ISBN 0848603087
4 February 1936	W.R. Dawson Warren Royal Dawson Warren Royal Dawson was an English insurance agent, Egyptologist and antiquarian.-Biography:Educated at St Paul's School, Dawson was forced to abandon his education on the death of his father in 1903...	The magicians of pharaoh	JSTOR
1940	W.R. Halliday William Reginald Halliday Sir William Reginald Halliday was a historian and archaeologist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1928 to 1952....	The riddle of Apollo
18 April 1944	Morris Ginsberg Morris Ginsberg Morris Ginsberg was a UK sociologist. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943. Ginsberg helped draft the UNESCO 1950 statement titled The Race Question...	Moral progress	WorldCat
6 December 1948	Alexander Murray Macbeath	The relationship of primitive morality and religion	WorldCat
28 April 1953	Max Gluckman	Rituals of rebellion in South-East Africa	ISBN 0415329833
28 November 1957	Meyer Fortes Meyer Fortes Meyer Fortes was a South African-born anthropologist, best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana.Originally trained in psychology, Fortes employed the notion of the "person" into his structural-functional analyses of kinship, the family, and ancestor worship setting a standard...	The idea of destiny in West African religions	WorldCat
1959	J.G. Peristiany	Honour
9 March 1967	Ian Cunnison	Analysis of an interregnum in the dynasty of the Eastern Lunda	Unpublished
29 January 1969	E.R. Dodds Eric Robertson Dodds Eric Robertson Dodds was an Irish classical scholar. He signed all his publications E. R. Dodds.-Life:Dodds was born in Banbridge, County Down, the son of schoolteachers. His father Robert was from a Presbyterian family, and died of alcoholism when Dodds was seven. His mother Anne was of...	Greek anthropology and the idea of progress	ISBN 0198143702
1972	No appointment
28 February 1977	Ernest Gellner	A theory of nationalism	JSTOR
22 April 1981	Peter Worsley	Straw men and ideal types: non-Western medical systems	JSTOR
24 April 1985	Gilbert Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert Lewis is an American actor who is best known for playing The King of Cartoons in the first season of the 1986 children's show, Pee-wee's Playhouse. Lewis played the King of Cartoons in thirteen episodes before being replaced by actor, William Marshall...	The look of magic	JSTOR
18 April 1990	Peter Ucko	Whose culture is it anyway?	Sage
7 December 1993	Alexander Fenton	The food of the gods (Prestige, hunger and charity: aspects of status through food)	ISBN 9780859766968
29 October 1997	Paul Henley Paul Henley Paul Henley is a British radio and television journalist. He has worked for the BBC since 1992 and contributes to programmes such as Crossing Continents for BBC Radio 4. He was a runner up in the Foreign Press Awards in 2005. He attended the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and Fitzwilliam College,...	Narratives of the noble savage: history, ethnography and iconography in the construction of Amazonian alterity	manuscript
5 March 2002	Margaret A. Mackay	Why study Scottish folklore?	Unpublished
2006	No appointment

Liverpool Lectures

Date	Lecturer	Title	Publication
27 November 1925	Bronisław Malinowski	Myth in primitive psychology	ISBN 0837159547
18 October 1929	A.C. Haddon Alfred Cort Haddon Alfred Cort Haddon, Sc.D., FRS, FRGS was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist.Initially a biologist, who achieved his most notable fieldwork, with W.H.R. Rivers, C.G. Seligman, Sidney Ray, Anthony Wilkin on the Torres Strait Islands...	The religion of a primitive people	ISBN 0848603087
30 November 1933	C.G. Seligman Charles Gabriel Seligman Charles Gabriel Seligman FRS was a British ethnologist. Born in London, Seligman studied medicine at St. Thomas' Hospital....	Egypt and Negro Africa: a study in divine kingship	ISBN 0404121381
7 January 1938	Henry Balfour Henry Balfour Henry Balfour FRS was a British archaeologist, and first curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum.He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Museums Association, the Folklore Society, the Royal Geographical Society. and a Fellow of the Royal Society-Works:*, Rivington, Percival & Co.,...	Spinners and weavers in anthropological research	WorldCat
1941	No appointment
23 October 1946	E.W. Smith	Plans and people!: a dynamic science of man in the service of Africa	WorldCat
10 November 1949	V. Gordon Childe	Magic, craftsmanship and science	WorldCat
26 June 1953	E. Franklin Frazier	The evolution of religion among American Negroes	ISBN 0805235086
20 November 1956	C. Daryll Forde	The context of belief: a consideration of fetishism among the Yakö	WorldCat
28 November 1961	E. Estyn Evans	Atlantic Europe: the pastoral heritage	ISBN 1874675481
3 February 1966	Audrey Richards	The changing world of the anthropologist	manuscript
21 October 1969	W.M. Williams	Ecological Models	Unpublished
Nov 1973	Alan Macfarlane	Clio's task: the potential of historical anthropology	Online
1978	Georges Balandier	Africanist anthropology and the problem of power	Unpublished
29 April 1982	Marshall Sahlins	Captain James Cook; or, the dying god	ISBN 0226733572
1 May 1986	Marilyn Strathern	Out of context: the persuasive fictions of anthropology	JSTOR
1 November 1990	Maurice Bloch Maurice Bloch Maurice Bloch is a British anthropologist.He attended the Lycée Carnot in Paris and the Perse School in Cambridge, moving to Britain at the age of eleven. His move to the UK was because his father had been killed by the Nazis when in the French Army and his mother, a marine biologist, had...	The lessons and limitations of cognitive sciences for anthropology	JSTOR
Nov 1994	Jack Goody	Cognitive contradictions and universals: creation and evolution in oral cultures	Blackwell
20 November 1998	Joanna Overing	The efficacy of laughter: the ludic side of magic within Amazonian sociality	ISBN 0203190041
2003	No appointment