Edward Burnett Tylor

Tylor's ideology is best described in his most famous work, the two-volume Primitive Culture. The first volume, The Origins of Culture, deals with various aspects of ethnography including social evolution, linguistics, and myth. The second volume, titled Religion in Primitive Culture, deals mainly with his interpretation of animism. On the first page of Primitive Culture, Tylor provides an all-inclusive definition which is one of his most widely recognized contributions to anthropology: "Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." Primitive Culture remained the pinnacle of Tylor's career, important not only for its thorough study of human civilization and contributions to the emergent field of anthropology, but also for its undeniable influence on a handful of young scholars.

Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom

Primitive Culture

Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom

Primitive Culture: The science of culture

George Turner

A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before : Together with Notes on the Cults and Customs of Twenty-three Other Islands in the Pacific

Samoa

Primitive Culture, Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom

Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom

Applied to Laws of Marriage and Descent

On a Method of Investigating the Development of Institutions

Mention of practice of tribe near Maryborough, Queensland; residence & avoidance, also laws for Australia generally.

Volume II of this classic two-part work by a distinguished anthropologist focuses on animism the belief that everything possesses a soul to trace the development of mind and culture."

Primitive Culture, Volume II

An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization

Anthropology

Forschungen Über Die Urgeschichte Der Menschheit und Die Entwickelung Der Civilisation. ... Aus Dem Englischen Von H. Müller

Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art and Custom

Researches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization

Edward Burnett Tylor

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