Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2J. Murray, 1871 - Animism 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. |
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... Aryans , the doctrine of migration was adopted and adapted by Hindu philosophy , and forms an integral part of that great system common to Brah- manism and Buddhism , wherein successive births or existences are believed to carry on the ...
... Aryans , the doctrine of migration was adopted and adapted by Hindu philosophy , and forms an integral part of that great system common to Brah- manism and Buddhism , wherein successive births or existences are believed to carry on the ...
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... Aryan evidence in ' Rig - Veda , ' x . 14 , 8 ; xi . 1 , 8 ; Manu , xii . 16-22 ; Max Müller , Todtenbestattung , ' pp . xii . xiv .; Chips , vol . i . p . 47 ; Muir in ' Journ . As . Soc . Bengal , ' vol . i . 1865 , p . 306 ; Ward ...
... Aryan evidence in ' Rig - Veda , ' x . 14 , 8 ; xi . 1 , 8 ; Manu , xii . 16-22 ; Max Müller , Todtenbestattung , ' pp . xii . xiv .; Chips , vol . i . p . 47 ; Muir in ' Journ . As . Soc . Bengal , ' vol . i . 1865 , p . 306 ; Ward ...
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... Aryan religious systems , Brahmanism , Za- rathustrism , Buddhism , and onward into the range of Islam and of Christianity , subterranean hells of purgatory or punish- ment make the doleful contrast to heavens of light and glory . It is ...
... Aryan religious systems , Brahmanism , Za- rathustrism , Buddhism , and onward into the range of Islam and of Christianity , subterranean hells of purgatory or punish- ment make the doleful contrast to heavens of light and glory . It is ...
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... Aryan poets , this hymn from the Rig - Veda may show : - " Where there is eternal light , in the world where the sun is placed , in that immortal imperishable world place me , O Soma ! Where king Vaivasvata reigns , where the secret ...
... Aryan poets , this hymn from the Rig - Veda may show : - " Where there is eternal light , in the world where the sun is placed , in that immortal imperishable world place me , O Soma ! Where king Vaivasvata reigns , where the secret ...
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... Aryan religions of Asia . In Brahmanism and Bud- dhism , the working out of good and evil actions into their " ( 2 1 Bunsen , ' Egypt's Place in Univ . Hist . ' vol . iv . p . 618 , etc .; Birch's Intro- duction to and translation of ...
... Aryan religions of Asia . In Brahmanism and Bud- dhism , the working out of good and evil actions into their " ( 2 1 Bunsen , ' Egypt's Place in Univ . Hist . ' vol . iv . p . 618 , etc .; Birch's Intro- duction to and translation of ...
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