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 vii
... Divine Ancestor - Dualism ; its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity - Doctrine of Divine Supremacy , distinct from , while tending towards , the doctrine ...
... Divine Ancestor - Dualism ; its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity - Doctrine of Divine Supremacy , distinct from , while tending towards , the doctrine ...
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... divine ethereality to the happy land of Bolotu , the lower ranks were believed to be endowed only with souls that died with their bodies ; and although some of these had the vanity to claim a place in paradise among their betters , the ...
... divine ethereality to the happy land of Bolotu , the lower ranks were believed to be endowed only with souls that died with their bodies ; and although some of these had the vanity to claim a place in paradise among their betters , the ...
Page 72
... divine happiness , they raised other ranges of heavens where sensual pain and pleasure cease , and enjoyment becomes intellectual , till at a higher grade even bodily form is gone , and after the last heaven of " Neither - consciousness ...
... divine happiness , they raised other ranges of heavens where sensual pain and pleasure cease , and enjoyment becomes intellectual , till at a higher grade even bodily form is gone , and after the last heaven of " Neither - consciousness ...
Page 83
... divine judge how they have lived ; have they religiously observed the holy days dedicated to their god , have they abstained from all forbidden meats and kept their vows inviolate , they are wafted across to paradise ; but if they have ...
... divine judge how they have lived ; have they religiously observed the holy days dedicated to their god , have they abstained from all forbidden meats and kept their vows inviolate , they are wafted across to paradise ; but if they have ...
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... divine ancestors till he reaches a first ancestor of man and creator of the world , the primæval Unkulunkulu . In West Africa , manes - worship displays in contrast its two special types . On the one hand , we see the North Guinea ...
... divine ancestors till he reaches a first ancestor of man and creator of the world , the primæval Unkulunkulu . In West Africa , manes - worship displays in contrast its two special types . On the one hand , we see the North Guinea ...
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