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 25
... tribes , the wandering shadows of the dead are said to be considered un- resting till burial . In Turanian regions of North Asia , the spirits of the dead who have no resting - place in earth are thought of as lingering above ground ...
... tribes , the wandering shadows of the dead are said to be considered un- resting till burial . In Turanian regions of North Asia , the spirits of the dead who have no resting - place in earth are thought of as lingering above ground ...
Page 29
... tribes this kindly hospitality to ancestral souls passes on into the belief and ceremony of full manes- worship ... Turanian races of North Asia , the Chuwash put food and napkins on the grave , saying , " Rise at night and eat your ...
... tribes this kindly hospitality to ancestral souls passes on into the belief and ceremony of full manes- worship ... Turanian races of North Asia , the Chuwash put food and napkins on the grave , saying , " Rise at night and eat your ...
Page 61
... tribes , it is enough to cite the Zulus , who at death will descend to live in Hades among their ancestors , the " Abapansi , " the " people underground . " 2 From among rude Asiatic tribes ... Turanian examples in Castrén , Finn . Myth . ' p ...
... tribes , it is enough to cite the Zulus , who at death will descend to live in Hades among their ancestors , the " Abapansi , " the " people underground . " 2 From among rude Asiatic tribes ... Turanian examples in Castrén , Finn . Myth . ' p ...
Page 102
... Turanian tribes of North Asia fear their sha- mans even more when dead than when alive , for they become a special class of spirits who are the hurtfullest in all nature , and who among the Mongols plague the living on purpose to make ...
... Turanian tribes of North Asia fear their sha- mans even more when dead than when alive , for they become a special class of spirits who are the hurtfullest in all nature , and who among the Mongols plague the living on purpose to make ...
Page 107
... tribes , whose religions more or less represent præ - Brahmanic and præ - Buddhistic conditions , wide and deep traces appear of an ancient and surviv- ing cultus of ancestors . Among Turanian tribes spread over the northern regions of ...
... tribes , whose religions more or less represent præ - Brahmanic and præ - Buddhistic conditions , wide and deep traces appear of an ancient and surviv- ing cultus of ancestors . Among Turanian tribes spread over the northern regions of ...
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