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Frazerian, a.|freɪˈzɪərɪən| Of or pertaining to Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (1854–1941), or his work. Also as n., a follower or adherent of Frazer.
1932Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Dec. 915/1 The King of the Shilluk has long been entitled to rank as a classical case of the Frazerian embodiment of the tribal luck whose duty it is to vacate his office by death before the vigour that he must pass on..can suffer diminution. 1937A. Huxley Ends & Means v. 38 Two peoples may have what is, according to Frazerian ideas, the same custom. 1962Listener 16 Aug. 258/2 We learnt that an untrained laboratory worm which eats a trained one takes over its responses—though..this principle doesn't apply to human beings, so that any eager Frazerian contemplating a supper of Bronowski à la mode had better think again. 1968Int. Encycl. Soc. Sci. V. 552/1 Many anthropologists thus became ‘enslaved’, as Seligman was and as Malinowski once claimed to have been, by Frazerian anthropology. 1970E. Leach Lévi-Strauss i. 19 The ethnographic observations on which Lévi-Strauss, like his Frazerian predecessors, has chosen to rely. |