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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... 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 comprises vi CONTENTS .
... 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 comprises vi CONTENTS .
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... god - Agriculture - god - War - god - God of the Dead - First Man as Divine Ancestor - Dualism ; its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity - Doctrine of ...
... god - Agriculture - god - War - god - God of the Dead - First Man as Divine Ancestor - Dualism ; its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity - Doctrine of ...
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... gods : " — " Parva petunt manes . Pietas pro divite grata est Munere . Non avidos Styx habet ima deos . Tegula porrectis satis est velata coronis , Et sparsæ fruges , parcaque mica salis , Inque mero mollita ceres , violæque solutæ ...
... gods : " — " Parva petunt manes . Pietas pro divite grata est Munere . Non avidos Styx habet ima deos . Tegula porrectis satis est velata coronis , Et sparsæ fruges , parcaque mica salis , Inque mero mollita ceres , violæque solutæ ...
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... gods and souls lying in the ocean north - west of Tonga . That island is larger than all theirs together , full of all finest fruits and loveliest flowers , that fill the air with fragrance , and come anew the moment they are plucked ...
... gods and souls lying in the ocean north - west of Tonga . That island is larger than all theirs together , full of all finest fruits and loveliest flowers , that fill the air with fragrance , and come anew the moment they are plucked ...
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... God's firmament , pale home of crime , Scarr'd prison - house of sin , where damned souls Feed upon punishment . Oh , thought sublime , That amid night's black deeds , when evil prowls Through the broad world , thou , watching sinners ...
... God's firmament , pale home of crime , Scarr'd prison - house of sin , where damned souls Feed upon punishment . Oh , thought sublime , That amid night's black deeds , when evil prowls Through the broad world , thou , watching sinners ...
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