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 19
... Tonga islands , the future life was a privilege of caste , for while the chiefs and higher orders were to pass in divine ethereality to the happy land of Bolotu , the lower ranks were believed to be endowed only with souls that died ...
... Tonga islands , the future life was a privilege of caste , for while the chiefs and higher orders were to pass in divine ethereality to the happy land of Bolotu , the lower ranks were believed to be endowed only with souls that died ...
Page 45
... Tongan his shadowy island of Bolotu , the Greek enters Hades and looks on the Elysian Fields , the Christian beholds the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell . Among the North American Indians , and especially the Algonquin tribes ...
... Tongan his shadowy island of Bolotu , the Greek enters Hades and looks on the Elysian Fields , the Christian beholds the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell . Among the North American Indians , and especially the Algonquin tribes ...
Page 57
... Tongan legend says that , long ago , a canoe returning from Fiji was driven by stress of weather to Bolotu , the island of gods and souls lying in the ocean north - west of Tonga . That island is larger than all theirs together , full ...
... Tongan legend says that , long ago , a canoe returning from Fiji was driven by stress of weather to Bolotu , the island of gods and souls lying in the ocean north - west of Tonga . That island is larger than all theirs together , full ...
Page 65
... Tonga Is . ' vol . ii . p . 134 ; Turner , ' Polynesia , ' p . 103 ; Taylor , ' New Zealand , ' pp . 101 , 114 , 256 . 3 Callaway , ' Rel . of Amazulu , ' p . 393 ; Burton , W. and W. fr . W. Afr . p . 454 ; Castrén , Finn . Myth . ' p ...
... Tonga Is . ' vol . ii . p . 134 ; Turner , ' Polynesia , ' p . 103 ; Taylor , ' New Zealand , ' pp . 101 , 114 , 256 . 3 Callaway , ' Rel . of Amazulu , ' p . 393 ; Burton , W. and W. fr . W. Afr . p . 454 ; Castrén , Finn . Myth . ' p ...
Page 78
... Tonga islands , where aristocratic souls would pass to take their earthly rank and station in the island paradise of Bolotu , while plebeian souls , if indeed they existed , would die with the plebeian bodies they dwelt in.1 In Peru it ...
... Tonga islands , where aristocratic souls would pass to take their earthly rank and station in the island paradise of Bolotu , while plebeian souls , if indeed they existed , would die with the plebeian bodies they dwelt in.1 In Peru it ...
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