# Frazer Lecture

The Sir James George Frazer Memorial Lectureship in Social Anthropology is a British academic lecture series.
In 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 |
| 17 May 1922 | E.S. Hartland | The evolution of kinship: an African study | ISBN 0-8486-0308-7 |
| 27 May 1926 | Alexandre Moret | La mise à mort du Dieu en Égypte | ISBN 0-8486-0308-7 |
| 22 February 1930 | Paul Rivet | Les Océaniens | ISBN 0-8486-0308-7 |
| 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 | Soul and body in the folklore of modern Greece | JSTOR |
| 1 May 1947 | H.J. Fleure | Some aspects of British civilization | WorldCat |
| 21 November 1950 | Henri Frankfort | The problem of similarity in ancient Near-Eastern religions | WorldCat |
| 28 October 1954 | Isaac Schapera | The sin of Cain | JSTOR |
| 30 October 1958 | Louis Dumont | Le renoncement dans les religions de l’Inde | ISBN 0-226-16963-4 |
| 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 | Myth and ritual | ISBN 0-226-47496-8 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| 3 December 1974 | G.S. Kirk | Adonis: a demi-god still divided | Unpublished |
| 30 November 1978 | James Littlejohn | Magic boughs | Unpublished |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 | Kingship and divinity | manuscript Open Access Archived 9 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine |
| 7 May 1987 | G.E.R. Lloyd | Early Greek science and the limits of rationality | ISBN 0-521-36680-1 |
| 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| 9 May 2000 | J.D.Y. Peel | Time and difference in the anthropology of religion | Unpublished |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 | 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 | Immigrants and their influence in the lake region of Central Africa | ISBN 0-8486-0308-7 |
| 2 March 1927 | R.R. Marett | The diffusion of culture | ISBN 0-8486-0308-7 |
| 26 November 1931 | Sir Arthur Evans | The earlier religion of Greece in the light of Cretan discoveries | ISBN 0-8486-0308-7 |
| 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 | 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 0-521-09263-9 |
| 10 March 1967 | Lucy Mair | Witchcraft and sorcery | ISBN 0-303-74622-X |
| 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 | Symbol, worldview and creativity in some Inner New Guinea religious traditions | ISBN 0-521-34279-1 |
| 30 October 1987 | Robin Horton | Back to Frazer? | ISBN 0-521-36087-0 |
| 5 March 1992 | Godfrey Lienhardt | Frazer's anthropology: science and sensibility | JASO Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine 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 | On the anthropology of the contemporary | video |
| 17 October 2016 | Jane Guyer | Anthropological Recuperations: Intellectual and Social |
| 20 May 2022 | Matthew Engelke | Sovereign Bodies | |

### Glasgow Lectures

| Date | Lecturer | Title | Publication |
| 1924 | W. J. Perry | The age of the gods | ISBN 0-8486-0308-7 |
| 7 September 1928 | E.A. Westermarck | The study of popular sayings | ISBN 0-8486-0308-7 |
| 4 March 1932 | Sir Arthur Keith | The Aryan theory as it stands to-day | ISBN 0-8486-0308-7 |
| 4 February 1936 | W.R. Dawson | The magicians of pharaoh | JSTOR |
| 1940 | W.R. Halliday | The riddle of Apollo | |
| 18 April 1944 | Morris Ginsberg | 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 0-415-32983-3 |
| 28 November 1957 | Meyer Fortes | 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 | Greek anthropology and the idea of progress | ISBN 0-19-814370-2 |
| 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 | 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 978-0-85976-696-8 |
| 29 October 1997 | Paul Henley | 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 0-8371-5954-7 |
| 18 October 1929 | A.C. Haddon | The religion of a primitive people | ISBN 0-8486-0308-7 |
| 30 November 1933 | C.G. Seligman | Egypt and Negro Africa: a study in divine kingship | ISBN 0-404-12138-1 |
| 7 January 1938 | Henry Balfour | 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 0-8052-3508-6 |
| 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 1-874675-48-1 |
| 3 February 1966 | Audrey Richards | The changing world of the anthropologist | manuscript |
| 21 October 1969 | W.M. Williams | Ecological Models | manuscript |
| 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 0-226-73357-2 |
| 1 May 1986 | Marilyn Strathern | Out of context: the persuasive fictions of anthropology | JSTOR |
| 1 November 1990 | Maurice Bloch | 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 0-203-19004-1 |
| 2003 | No appointment | | |