LECTURE BY GODFREY LIENHARDT


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Godfrey Lienhardt delivers the Frazer Lecture

Godfrey Lienhardt describes the influence of Sir J.G.Frazer on anthropology. Frazer's secretary Downie, who wrote a biography of Frazer, describes the critical attitude towards Frazer of many anthropologists. Lienhardt recalls that he started to work on Frazer's letter collection.

The Frazer lecture was given in March 1992 and filmed by Humphrey Hinton, in Mill Lane, Cambridge. The lecture is 45 minutes long.