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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... barbaric to civilized faiths - Transi- tion of Animism in the History of Religion ; its earlier and later stages as a Philosophy of the Universe ; its later stages as the principle of a Moral Institution PAGE 276 CHAPTER XVIII . RITES ...
... barbaric to civilized faiths - Transi- tion of Animism in the History of Religion ; its earlier and later stages as a Philosophy of the Universe ; its later stages as the principle of a Moral Institution PAGE 276 CHAPTER XVIII . RITES ...
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... barbaric psychology but a portion of the wide doctrine of the soul's future existence . For a conspicuous instance of this , let us take the system of the Gold - Coast negroes . They believe that the " kla " or " kra , " the vital soul ...
... barbaric psychology but a portion of the wide doctrine of the soul's future existence . For a conspicuous instance of this , let us take the system of the Gold - Coast negroes . They believe that the " kla " or " kra , " the vital soul ...
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... barbaric life almost without a break , and survives largely and deeply in the midst of civilization . From the myriad details of travellers , missionaries , historians , theolo- gians , spiritualists , it may be laid down as an admitted ...
... barbaric life almost without a break , and survives largely and deeply in the midst of civilization . From the myriad details of travellers , missionaries , historians , theolo- gians , spiritualists , it may be laid down as an admitted ...
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... custom have come down , it would seem far - fetched indeed to trace their origin from the savage and barbaric times of the institution of feasts of departed souls . CHAPTER XIII . ANIMISM ( continued ) . Journey of ANIMISM . 39.
... custom have come down , it would seem far - fetched indeed to trace their origin from the savage and barbaric times of the institution of feasts of departed souls . CHAPTER XIII . ANIMISM ( continued ) . Journey of ANIMISM . 39.
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... barbaric life , was told to Mr. Shortland by a servant of his named Te Wharewera . An aunt of this man's died in a solitary hut near the banks of Lake Rotorua . Being a lady of rank she was left in her hut , the door and windows were ...
... barbaric life , was told to Mr. Shortland by a servant of his named Te Wharewera . An aunt of this man's died in a solitary hut near the banks of Lake Rotorua . Being a lady of rank she was left in her hut , the door and windows were ...
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