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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... beasts , can at least admit without 6 1 Grey , ' Australia , ' vol . i . p . 301 ; Lang , ' Queensland , ' pp . 34 , 336 ; Bonwick , ‹ Tasmanians , ' p . 183 ; Scherzer , ' Voy . of Novara , ' vol . iii . p . 34 ; Bastian , ' Psy ...
... beasts , can at least admit without 6 1 Grey , ' Australia , ' vol . i . p . 301 ; Lang , ' Queensland , ' pp . 34 , 336 ; Bonwick , ‹ Tasmanians , ' p . 183 ; Scherzer , ' Voy . of Novara , ' vol . iii . p . 34 ; Bastian , ' Psy ...
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... beast , man , deity . Thus all creatures differ rather in degree than kind , all are akin to man , an elephant or ape ... beasts , snakes , worms , insects , and inert things . Obscure as the relation mostly is between the crime and its ...
... beast , man , deity . Thus all creatures differ rather in degree than kind , all are akin to man , an elephant or ape ... beasts , snakes , worms , insects , and inert things . Obscure as the relation mostly is between the crime and its ...
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... beast or a pariah ; he who adulterously dishonours his guru or spiritual father shall be a hundred times re - born as grass , a bush , a creeper , a carrion bird , a beast of prey ; the cruel shall become bloodthirsty beasts ; stealers ...
... beast or a pariah ; he who adulterously dishonours his guru or spiritual father shall be a hundred times re - born as grass , a bush , a creeper , a carrion bird , a beast of prey ; the cruel shall become bloodthirsty beasts ; stealers ...
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... mrigas- chaiva jaghanyâ tâmasî gatih ” — “ inert ( motionless ) things , worms and insects , fish , serpents , tortoises and beasts and deer also are the last dark form . " holy ? Because in a previous birth he had walked 10 ANIMISM .
... mrigas- chaiva jaghanyâ tâmasî gatih ” — “ inert ( motionless ) things , worms and insects , fish , serpents , tortoises and beasts and deer also are the last dark form . " holy ? Because in a previous birth he had walked 10 ANIMISM .
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... beasts . The pictures and hieroglyphic sentences of the Book of the Dead are still preserved , and though the ambiguity of its formulas and the difficulty of distinguishing material from mystical meaning in its doctrine make it of ...
... beasts . The pictures and hieroglyphic sentences of the Book of the Dead are still preserved , and though the ambiguity of its formulas and the difficulty of distinguishing material from mystical meaning in its doctrine make it of ...
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