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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... higher races - Doctrine of Moral Retribution as developed in the higher culture - Survey of Doctrine of Future State , from savage to civilized stages - Its practical effect on the sentiment and conduct of Mankind 653018 H 753 40 ...
... higher races - Doctrine of Moral Retribution as developed in the higher culture - Survey of Doctrine of Future State , from savage to civilized stages - Its practical effect on the sentiment and conduct of Mankind 653018 H 753 40 ...
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... Higher Deities of Polytheism - Human characteristics applied to Deity— Lords of Spiritual Hierarchy - Polytheism its course of development in lower and higher Culture - Principles of its investigation ; classifica- tion of Deities ...
... Higher Deities of Polytheism - Human characteristics applied to Deity— Lords of Spiritual Hierarchy - Polytheism its course of development in lower and higher Culture - Principles of its investigation ; classifica- tion of Deities ...
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... higher nations - General survey of Animism as a Philosophy of Religion- Re- capitulation of the theory advanced as to its development through suc- cessive stages of culture ; its primary phases best represented among the lower races ...
... higher nations - General survey of Animism as a Philosophy of Religion- Re- capitulation of the theory advanced as to its development through suc- cessive stages of culture ; its primary phases best represented among the lower races ...
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... higher civilization . The temporary migration of souls into ma- terial substances , from human bodies down to morsels of wood and stone , is a most important part of the lower psychology . But it does not relate to the continued ...
... higher civilization . The temporary migration of souls into ma- terial substances , from human bodies down to morsels of wood and stone , is a most important part of the lower psychology . But it does not relate to the continued ...
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... higher levels of culture , the theory of re - embodiment of 1 Waitz , vol . ii . p . 419 ( Maravi ) . 6 Callaway , ' Rel . of Amazulu , ' p . 196 , etc .; Arbousset and Daumas , p . 277 . 3 J. L. Wilson , W. Afr . ' pp . 210 , 218. See ...
... higher levels of culture , the theory of re - embodiment of 1 Waitz , vol . ii . p . 419 ( Maravi ) . 6 Callaway , ' Rel . of Amazulu , ' p . 196 , etc .; Arbousset and Daumas , p . 277 . 3 J. L. Wilson , W. Afr . ' pp . 210 , 218. See ...
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