Robert Fraser
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3586149 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert Fraser |
| PRENOMES | Robert |
| SOBRENOME | Fraser |
| ASSINATURA | FRASER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1475-1863 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1929 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music By Delia da Sousa Correa
Large multi-decade beaver ponding changes in the subarctic Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada observed using satellite remote sensing
Beavers strongly impact hydrology and ecosystems through their widespread dam building that creates ponds and wetlands. Monitoring the relative abundance of beavers and their waterbodies is needed to assess these effects and factors influencing population levels. However, the ability to do this over vast, remote regions is limited with conventional aerial or field-based surveying. To address this challenge, we developed a satellite remote sensing…
The individuation of mathematical objects
Against mathematical platonism, it is sometimes objected that mathematical objects are mysterious. One possible elaboration of this objection is that the individuation of mathematical objects cannot be adequately explained. This suggests that facts about the numerical identity and distinctness of mathematical objects require an explanation, but that their supposed nature precludes us from providing one. In this paper, we evaluate this nominalist …
Improving mental ill-health with psycho-social group interventions in South Asia–A scoping review using a realist lens
This scoping review aimed to synthesise current evidence related to psycho-social groups as part of community-based mental health interventions in South Asia. We used a realist lens to pay attention to the contexts and mechanisms supporting positive outcomes. We included studies published from January 2007 to February 2022 that: were based in communities in South Asia, included a group component, reported on interventions with a clear psychosocia…
No Grounds for Fictionalism
I argue that fictionalism about grounding is unmotivated, focusing on Naomi Thompson’s (2022) recent proposal on which the utility of the grounding fiction lies in its facilitating communication about what metaphysically explains what. I show that, despite its apparent dialectical kinship with other metaphysical debates in which fictionalism has a healthy tradition, the grounding debate is different in two key respects. Firstly, grounding talk is…
Changes in surface water dynamics across northwestern Canada are influenced by wildfire and permafrost thaw
The abundance and distribution of surface water at high latitudes is shifting rapidly in response to both climate change and permafrost thaw. In particular, the expansion and drainage of lakes and ponds is widespread but spatially variable, and more research is needed to understand factors driving these processes. In this study we used medium resolution (30 m) remote sensing data to analyse changes in lake area in permafrost-rich lowland regions …
Unification and mathematical explanation
This paper provides a sorely-needed evaluation of the view that mathematical explanations in science explain by unifying. Illustrating with some novel examples, I argue that the view is misguided. For believers in mathematical explanations in science, my discussion rules out one way of spelling out how they work, bringing us one step closer to the right way. For non-believers, it contributes to a divide-and-conquer strategy for showing that there…
The uncanny accuracy of God's mathematical beliefs
I show how mathematical platonism combined with belief in the God of classical theism can respond to Field's epistemological objection. I defend an account of divine mathematical knowledge by showing that it falls out of an independently motivated general account of divine knowledge. I use this to explain the accuracy of God's mathematical beliefs, which in turn explains the accuracy of our own. My arguments provide good news for theistic platoni…
Platonic Relations and Mathematical Explanations
Some scientific explanations appear to turn on pure mathematical claims. The enhanced indispensability argument appeals to these 'mathematical explanations' in support of mathematical platonism. I argue that the success of this argument rests on the claim that mathematical explanations locate pure mathematical facts on which their physical explananda depend, and that any account of mathematical explanation that supports this claim fails to provid…
After Ancient Biography
Good weasel hunting
A method for trend-based change analysis in Arctic tundra using the 25-year Landsat archive
Remote sensing has provided evidence of vegetation changes in Arctic tundra that may be attributable to recent climate warming. These changes are evident from local scales as expanding shrub cover observed in aerial photos, to continental scales as greening trends based on satellite vegetation indices. One challenge in applying conventional two date, satellite change detection in tundra environments is the short growing season observation window,…
Detecting long-term changes to vegetation in northern Canada using the Landsat satellite image archive
Analysis of coarse resolution (∼1 km) satellite imagery has provided evidence of vegetation changes in arctic regions since the mid-1980s that may be attributable to climate warming. Here we investigate finer-scale changes to northern vegetation over the same period using stacks of 30 m resolution Landsat TM and ETM + satellite images. Linear trends in the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and tasseled cap indices are derived for four…
The Golden Bough
A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906–15) which was abridged in 1922 by the author and his wife. That abridgement has never been reconsidered for a modern audience. In it some of the more …
The golden bough
Relating Biomass and Leaf Area Index to Non-destructive Measurements in Order to Monitor Changes in Arctic Vegetation
This paper reports an alternative method for seasonal and long-term monitoring of biomass and the leaf area index (LAI) at Arctic tundra sites. Information related to the historical and projected change in abundance and distribution of biomass and LAI is required to address numerous environmental and resource management issues. Observations of earth from satellites could potentially be used to derive seasonal and long-term changes in biomass and …
Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Leila Aboulela A Link to the Wider World Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 and grew up in Khartoum. Her novel, The Translator, was published to critical acclaim in 1999 and longlisted for the Orange
Books Without Borders, Volume 1
Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set o
Books Without Borders, Volume 1 Vol. 1
Obituary
July 1968, the Dome, Brighton. I have just graduated with my Sussex BA in English and am watching the slender band of new PhDs from this then still quite recent institution trickle onto the stage
Half the World is Not So Narrow’
The Book in the World
Who No Know Go Know’
Ntone Edjabe is a selector and a writer. As a DJ he has performed in Afrobeat capitals such as Lagos, Johannesburg, Berlin, New Delhi, Paris and New York, and at events such as the Cape Town Jazz F
Valuing non-market benefits derived from allotments in southeast England
The English derive a wide range of values from allotments, but nearly 35% of allotments have disappeared in the last 20 years. The real value of allotments has probably been underestimated. The contingent valuation method (CVM) was used to give a monetary value to benefits derived from allotments by allotment holders and local residents. The study was conducted in southeast England (Wye and Ashford, Kent and Greater London). A postal survey with …
Validation of a food-frequency questionnaire for use in pregnancy
Objectives As a part of an ongoing project to develop a nutritional screening tool, we evaluated the performance of a semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in terms of validity in a Sheffield Caucasian pregnant population using two different statistical approaches – the correlation coefficient and the limits of agreement (LOA). The FFQ was designed specifically for pregnant women and previously used in a large-scale study. Design A…
Dambudzo Marechera, 1952 - 1987
Good weasel hunting
Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Leila Aboulela A Link to the Wider World Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 and grew up in Khartoum. Her novel, The Translator, was published to critical acclaim in 1999 and longlisted for the Orange
The Book in the World
Who No Know Go Know’
Ntone Edjabe is a selector and a writer. As a DJ he has performed in Afrobeat capitals such as Lagos, Johannesburg, Berlin, New Delhi, Paris and New York, and at events such as the Cape Town Jazz F
The Virtues and Vices of Common Services
Trade Union Documents and Portrait of the Labour Party
Trade Union Documents and Portrait of the Labour Party Get access Trade Union Documents. Compiled and edited by W. Milne-Bailey. 1929. (London: G. Bell & Sons. 8vo. xxvii + 552 pp. 8s. 6d.)Portrait of the Labour Party. By Egon Wertheimer. 1929. (London: Putnam's Sons. 8vo. xxiii + 216 pp. 5s.) Robert Fraser Robert Fraser Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the Royal Institute of International Affair…
The Virtues and Vices of Common Services
Haldane Eassy Competition 1971 Report of Adjudicators
The Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah
Teaching African Literature Critically
Kojo Laing—profile and extract
Literary Reviews
Tyranny and redemption. Anthills of the Savannah. Chinua Achebe. London: William Heinemann. 1987. 233pp. £10.95hb Suffering with stoicism: Kenyan histories. Coming to Birth. Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye. London: Virago Press. 1986. 150pp. £3.95pb The Present Moment. Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye. London: Heinemann. 1987. 155pp. £10.95hb The politics of the soul. Search Sweet Country. B Kojo Laing. London: Picador. 1987. 318pp. £3.95pb Images of Istanbul. Th…
Dambudzo Marechera, 1952 - 1987
Literary reviews
Happy endings Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman London: Jonathan Cape. 1988. 352pp. £12.95hb Eva Luna Isabel Allende Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden London: Hamish Hamilton. 1989. 272pp. £11.95hb Protean sophistication The Buenos Aires Affair Manuel Puig Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine London: Faber & Faber, 1989. 219pp. £4.99pb Blood of Requite…
Literary reviews
Physician, heal thyself A Casual Brutality. Neil Bissoondath, London: Bloomsbury. 1988. 378pp. £12.95hb Inheritances A Season in Rihata. Maryse Condé, Translated from the French by Richard Philcox, Oxford: Heinemann Educational Books. 1988. 192pp. £3.95pb No Telephone to Heaven. Michelle Cliff, London: Methuen. 1988. 211pp. £10.95hb Clarise Cumberbatch Want to Go Home. Joan Cambridge, London: The Women's Press. 1988. 201pp. £3.95pb Incantatory be…
The Making of the Golden Bough
Volume 1: J.G Frazer: His Life and Work R.Ackerman This Volume will Include Robert Ackerman's introduction to The Golden Bough Volume 2: The Making of the Golden Bough R.Fraser Volume 3: Part I: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, vol. 1 Volume 4: Part I: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, vol. 2 Volume 5: Part II: Taboo and the Perils of the Soul Volume 6: Part III: The Dying God Volume 7: Part IV: Adonis, Attis, Osiris, vol.1 Volum…
Making of the Golden Bough
The Theatre of Myth
Before long ominous noises were emanating from the Hôtel Printemps. A mere two months after the submission of the last manuscript, Frazer was at work again. The stimulus was Rome itself, the locus classicus in more than one sense. No sooner was he installed in the pension than the eminent among the scholarly community began leaving their cards, among them Gordon Rushforth, who was determined to recruit Frazer's support for a British School in the…
Totems and Totem Feasts
There is one other way of describing the ambiguous attitude towards the horse exhibited in the shrine at Nemi: in Nemi the horse was a totem. Frazer as a matter of fact never phrases it this crudely, preferring to imply that the ancient Latins retained the remnants of a totemic attitude, and that they focused this attitude on the horse. William Robertson Smith, I think, would not have been so squeamish — but, then, totems were his obsession.
The Flutes of Tammuz
Perhaps the most vivid extant account of the Resurrection Show comes from Julius Firmicus Matemus. This fourth-century convert is addressing the emperors Constantius and Constans, whom he wishes to take a firmer hand in suppressing the perfidious practices of the heathen. Do their majesties appreciate just what these pagans get up to in their perverse, clandestine way? Up and extirpate them! In their unthinking perversity they even travesty the O…
The Progress of the Mind
Yet misunderstood he had been, and it was only human to wish to put matters to rights. From 1890 to 1898 he was temporarily pulled aside from anthropology by the need to complete work on Pausanias, but he bitterly resented the intrusion, seeing his great edition of the Description of Greece increasingly as a curb upon his energies. By 1898 The Golden Bough had already become a way of life: his reputation, for better or for worse, depended upon it…
The Sacred and the Taboo
In the third book of the Aeneid, Virgil describes how, fleeing his native Troy and hounded by the resentful attentions of the goddess Juno, Aeneas lands with his companions on an island colonised by settlers from Thrace. Establishing his camp and anxious to secure the protection of the gods for his fresh undertaking, he is about to raise a sacrificial pyre on a mound crowned by myrtle bushes when his intercessions are interrupted by the voice of …
Anthropology as Consolation
In a postscript added to The White Goddess in 1960, Robert Graves describes the inception of the work. Exiled in Devon during the Second World War, he had embarked on his historical novel The Golden Fleece (1944), writing all the while in a study strewn with objets d'art originating from the Gold Coast.KeywordsGold CoastSacred GroveFemale LineMale LineAncient SocietyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is expe…
Sir James Frazer and the Literary Imagination
The Making of the Golden Bough
Diana's mirror the ebbing tide a meeting of minds the king is dead the sacred and the taboo totems and totem feasts sacrifice as eucharist sacrifice as magic the progress of the mind the man of sorrows the theatre of myth the flutes of Tammuz Sexta Luna the dying sun
Computer perception of phrase structure
A computer algorithm for modelling phrase perception in a monophonic rhythm is described and its relationship to phrase structure in general is discussed. The algorithm groups durations by proximity of attack and connections between relatively long notes, producing a hierarchy of groupings and identifying durational phrases among these. The connection between longer notes is also an aspect of metrical perception. Supplementary metrical informatio…
Fathers and Sons
Proust and the Victorians
In 1899 Marcel Proust read a translation of Ruskin's The Lamp of Memory in a Belgian magazine. Fourteen years later he back-projected the experience onto the narrator of Du cote de chez Swann who desc
Proust and the Victorians
The Lamp of Heroism
We must return once more to the room: Proust’s adult bedroom this time, at 45, Rue de Courcelles, from which on 10 February 1905 he wrote to his English friend and Ruskin co-translator Marie Nordlinger: ‘Tell your friend that in my scrupulously bare bedroom there is but one artistic reproduction: an admirable photograph of Whistler’s “Carlyle” with its overcoat of serpentine folds like the robe in “His Mother”’ (Cor, v, 41). A bare room; a coat w…
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