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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Page 67
... Parsi , the later Jew , the Moslem , and the Christian . For the object , not of writing a handbook of religions , but of tracing the relation which the religion of savages bears to the religion of cultured nations , these details are ...
... Parsi , the later Jew , the Moslem , and the Christian . For the object , not of writing a handbook of religions , but of tracing the relation which the religion of savages bears to the religion of cultured nations , these details are ...
Page 91
... Parsi of our own time , following in obscure tradition the ancient Zoroastrian faith , before he prays for forgiveness for all that he ought to have thought , and said , and done , and has not , for all that he ought not to have thought ...
... Parsi of our own time , following in obscure tradition the ancient Zoroastrian faith , before he prays for forgiveness for all that he ought to have thought , and said , and done , and has not , for all that he ought not to have thought ...
Page 154
... Parsi , or the idolatrous Phoenician with his ethnic kinsman the Israelite , among whose people the incidental relapse into the proscribed image - worship was a memory of disgrace . Moreover , its ten- dency to revive is ...
... Parsi , or the idolatrous Phoenician with his ethnic kinsman the Israelite , among whose people the incidental relapse into the proscribed image - worship was a memory of disgrace . Moreover , its ten- dency to revive is ...
Page 198
... ' Yezidis , ' in ' Tr . Eth . Soc . ' vol . i . p . 23 ; Jno . Wilson , Parsi Religion , ' p . 262 . 2 Hardy , ' Manual of Budhism , ' pp . 100 , 443 . recent investigations , published in his " Tree and Serpent 198 ANIMISM .
... ' Yezidis , ' in ' Tr . Eth . Soc . ' vol . i . p . 23 ; Jno . Wilson , Parsi Religion , ' p . 262 . 2 Hardy , ' Manual of Budhism , ' pp . 100 , 443 . recent investigations , published in his " Tree and Serpent 198 ANIMISM .
Page 256
... Parsis , 3 1 Hanway , ' Journal of Travels , ' London , 1753 , vol . i . ch . lvii . Diog . Laert . Prooem . ii . 6. Sextus Empiricus adv . Physicos , ix . ; Strabo , xv . ' John Wilson , ' The Parsi Religion , ' ch . iv . as in ...
... Parsis , 3 1 Hanway , ' Journal of Travels , ' London , 1753 , vol . i . ch . lvii . Diog . Laert . Prooem . ii . 6. Sextus Empiricus adv . Physicos , ix . ; Strabo , xv . ' John Wilson , ' The Parsi Religion , ' ch . iv . as in ...
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