Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer

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Ackerman carries off his project with the deceptive ease of one who knows more about Frazer than anyone else alive. Like his earlier biography, this collection will be an indispensable resource for students of Frazer for many years to come. * Robert Alun Jones, Religion * We are not finished with him yet. * Robert Fraser, The Classical Review * this collection will be an indispensable resource for students of Frazer for many years to come. * Robert Alun Jones, Religion * The volume is not merely essential for anthropologists, but will be read with profit and pleasure by all who take a lively interest in the cultural history of recent times. It will certainly entice you to hunt out that old one-volume abridgement of The Golden Bough. * Gordon K. Booth, The Aberdeen University Review * No one more competent than Ackerman, the lauded biographer of Frazer (1987), could have edited these letters with such skill and familiarity. The accurate transcriptions are uncensored. A highly informative, lucidly written, introduction illuminates their intellectual context. A selective biographical list of correspondents is welcome... In short required reading for any competent historian of religion. * William M. Calder III, Religious Studies Review *