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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... conceptions of their significance and function - Heaven - god - Rain - god - Thunder - god - Wind - god - Earth - god -Water - god - Sea - god - Fire - god - Sun - god - Moon - god · 224 CHAPTER XVII . ANIMISM ( continued ) . Polytheism ...
... conceptions of their significance and function - Heaven - god - Rain - god - Thunder - god - Wind - god - Earth - god -Water - god - Sea - god - Fire - god - Sun - god - Moon - god · 224 CHAPTER XVII . ANIMISM ( continued ) . Polytheism ...
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... conception of souls of plants . The idea is one known to lower races in the district of the world which has been more or less under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees ...
... conception of souls of plants . The idea is one known to lower races in the district of the world which has been more or less under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees ...
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... conception of soul in general , may perhaps help us here . As it seems that the first conception of souls may have been that of the souls of men , this being afterwards extended by analogy to the souls of animals , plants , etc. , so it ...
... conception of soul in general , may perhaps help us here . As it seems that the first conception of souls may have been that of the souls of men , this being afterwards extended by analogy to the souls of animals , plants , etc. , so it ...
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... conception of bodily resurrection is developed with especial strength and ful- ness in the Pauline doctrine . For an explicit interpretation of this doctrine , such as commended itself to the minds of later theologians , it is ...
... conception of bodily resurrection is developed with especial strength and ful- ness in the Pauline doctrine . For an explicit interpretation of this doctrine , such as commended itself to the minds of later theologians , it is ...
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... conception of immortality , for past and future fade soon into utter vague- ness as the savage mind quits the present to explore them , the measure of months and years breaks down even within the narrow span of human life , and the ...
... conception of immortality , for past and future fade soon into utter vague- ness as the savage mind quits the present to explore them , the measure of months and years breaks down even within the narrow span of human life , and the ...
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