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WHEN the anthropology of anthropologists comes to be written, future generations will have to explain why the first quarter of the twentieth century was so fascinated by fear, why that emotion was made to account for everything, for weddings, funerals, for religion itself. Theywill doubtless notice that during the same period there was a great increase in nervous disorders in which fear is the chief element, and they may conclude that there is a link between the two phenomena.
The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion: Lectures delivered on the William Wyse Foundation at Trinity College, Cambridge.
By Sir James George Frazer. Vol. 2. Pp. x + 151. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1934.) 10s. 6d. net.
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HOCART, A. The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion: Lectures delivered on the William Wyse Foundation at Trinity College, Cambridge . Nature 134, 475–476 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134475b0
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