Primitive Culture

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

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ID19925239
AuthorsEdward Burnett Tylor
Year2010
Publication date2010-12-02
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenuePrimitive Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511705960
OpenAlexW1429145750
Open LibraryOL29014410M
ISBN9780511705960
LanguageEN
Citations received46

Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917) was an English anthropologist who is widely considered the founder of anthropology as a scientific discipline. He was the first Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford from 1896 to 1909, and developed a broad definition of culture which is still used by scholars. First published in 1871, this classic work explains Tylor's idea of cultural evolution in relation to anthropology, a social theory which states that human cultures invariably change over time to become more complex. Unlike his contemporaries, Tylor did not link biological evolution to cultural evolution, asserting that all human minds are the same irrespective of a society's state of evolution. His book was extremely influential in popularising the study of anthropology and establishing cultural evolution as the main theoretical framework followed by anthropologists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Volume 2 contains Tylor's interpretation of animism in society

Animism · Cultural anthropology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Relation (database) · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · History of Science and Medicine · Language and cultural evolution · Philosophy · civilization · Ethnology · Language and languages · Mythology · Prehistoric peoples · Primitive societies · Religion · Social evolution

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