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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... Lords of Spiritual Hierarchy - Polytheism its course of development in lower and higher Culture - Principles of its investigation ; classifica- tion of Deities according to central conceptions of their significance and function - Heaven ...
... Lords of Spiritual Hierarchy - Polytheism its course of development in lower and higher Culture - Principles of its investigation ; classifica- tion of Deities according to central conceptions of their significance and function - Heaven ...
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... lord of the spirits of all flesh ? " and he who has done one sin beyond his good works shall pass into a brute . He who gives a Jew unclean meat to eat , his soul shall enter into a leaf , blown to and fro by the wind ; " for ye shall ...
... lord of the spirits of all flesh ? " and he who has done one sin beyond his good works shall pass into a brute . He who gives a Jew unclean meat to eat , his soul shall enter into a leaf , blown to and fro by the wind ; " for ye shall ...
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... lord present to be presented to the king , a prelate blessed the table , the basins of water were handed to the royal arm - chair , the cup was served in its due course , and grace was said in the accustomed manner , save that there was ...
... lord present to be presented to the king , a prelate blessed the table , the basins of water were handed to the royal arm - chair , the cup was served in its due course , and grace was said in the accustomed manner , save that there was ...
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... lord , and sent to fetch Nikander instead , a well - known currier , who was accordingly 1 Castrén , ' Finn . Myth , ' p . 139 , etc. 2 Bosman , ' Guinea , ' Letter 19 , in Pinkerton , vol . xvi . p . 501 ; Burton , ' Dahome , ' vol ...
... lord , and sent to fetch Nikander instead , a well - known currier , who was accordingly 1 Castrén , ' Finn . Myth , ' p . 139 , etc. 2 Bosman , ' Guinea , ' Letter 19 , in Pinkerton , vol . xvi . p . 501 ; Burton , ' Dahome , ' vol ...
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... Lord broke the fetters and visited them who sat in darkness and the shadow of death ; Adam and his right- eous children were delivered from Hades , and led into the glorious grace of Paradise.1 Dante , elaborating in the ' Divina ...
... Lord broke the fetters and visited them who sat in darkness and the shadow of death ; Adam and his right- eous children were delivered from Hades , and led into the glorious grace of Paradise.1 Dante , elaborating in the ' Divina ...
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