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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... 9 Dobrizhoffer , ' Abipones , ' vol . ii . pp . 74 , 270 . 10 Coreal in Brinton , 1. c . See also J. G. Müller , p . 139 ( Natchez ) , 223 ( Caribs ) , 402 ( Peru ) . again , mention is made of the Maravi thinking that 6 ANIMISM .
... 9 Dobrizhoffer , ' Abipones , ' vol . ii . pp . 74 , 270 . 10 Coreal in Brinton , 1. c . See also J. G. Müller , p . 139 ( Natchez ) , 223 ( Caribs ) , 402 ( Peru ) . again , mention is made of the Maravi thinking that 6 ANIMISM .
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... Peru , ' p . 134 ( Peruvian feast dated as Nov. 2 in coincidence with All Souls ' , but this reckoning is vitiated by confusion of seasons of N. and S. hemisphere , see J. G. Müller , p . 389 ; moreover , the Peruvian feast may have ...
... Peru , ' p . 134 ( Peruvian feast dated as Nov. 2 in coincidence with All Souls ' , but this reckoning is vitiated by confusion of seasons of N. and S. hemisphere , see J. G. Müller , p . 389 ; moreover , the Peruvian feast may have ...
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... Peru , then we may compare these savage doctrines with Isaac Taylor's ingenious supposition in his ' Physical Theory of Another Life , ' - the sun of each plane- tary system is the house of the higher and ultimate spiritual corporeity ...
... Peru , then we may compare these savage doctrines with Isaac Taylor's ingenious supposition in his ' Physical Theory of Another Life , ' - the sun of each plane- tary system is the house of the higher and ultimate spiritual corporeity ...
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... ( Peru ) , 505,660 ( Mexico ) ; Brinton , Myths of New World , ' p . 233 ; Taylor , ' Physical Theory , ' ch . xvi . ; Alger , ' Future Life , ' p . 590 . 2 Humboldt and Bonpland , ' Voy . ' vol . v . p . 90 ; Martius , Ethnog . Amer ...
... ( Peru ) , 505,660 ( Mexico ) ; Brinton , Myths of New World , ' p . 233 ; Taylor , ' Physical Theory , ' ch . xvi . ; Alger , ' Future Life , ' p . 590 . 2 Humboldt and Bonpland , ' Voy . ' vol . v . p . 90 ; Martius , Ethnog . Amer ...
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... Peru it seems that the Incas would return to dwellings in the sun , and that the happy , restful , upper - world of heaven was for the upper - classes ; an abode in the dark under - world of Cupay , or a transmigration into animals ...
... Peru it seems that the Incas would return to dwellings in the sun , and that the happy , restful , upper - world of heaven was for the upper - classes ; an abode in the dark under - world of Cupay , or a transmigration into animals ...
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