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Add. MS b/36/45
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Copy letter from J. G. Frazer to E. S. Hartland
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- c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)
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Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 16 December, 1901 - Returns [George] Theal's letters, and thinks South African totemism squares with the Wilken-Tylor theory, not his own; has more letters from Baldwin Spencer about the totemism of new tribes; [Alfred] Howitt has sent him a chapter of his forthcoming book dealing with burial of the dead; [Otto] Siebert has given Howitt stories about the Mura-Muras among the Dieri.
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Published in Ackerman, Robert, ed. 'Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer'. Oxford: Oxford University Press, [2005].
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- Hartland, Edwin Sidney (1848–1927) folklorist (Subject)
- Theal, George MCall (1837-1919) South African historian (Subject)
- Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett (1832-1917) Knight, anthropologist (Subject)
- Howitt, Alfred William (1830–1908) anthropologist (Subject)
- Wilken, George Alexander (1847-1891) ethnographer (Subject)
- Siebert, Otto (1871-1962) German missionary (Subject)