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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... Human and Animal Bodies , transference to Plants and Objects - Resurrection of Body scarcely held in savage religion - Future Life : a general though not universal doctrine of low races - Continued existence , rather than Immortality ...
... Human and Animal Bodies , transference to Plants and Objects - Resurrection of Body scarcely held in savage religion - Future Life : a general though not universal doctrine of low races - Continued existence , rather than Immortality ...
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... human , animal , vegetable , and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Ob- session as causes of Disease and Oracle - inspiration - Fetishism - Dis- ease - spirits embodied - Ghost attached to remains of Corpse - Fetish produced by a ...
... human , animal , vegetable , and inert bodies - Demoniacal Possession and Ob- session as causes of Disease and Oracle - inspiration - Fetishism - Dis- ease - spirits embodied - Ghost attached to remains of Corpse - Fetish produced by a ...
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... Human and Animal Bodies , transference to Plants and Objects - Resurrection of Body scarcely held in savage religion - Future Life : a general though not universal doctrine of low races - Continued existence , rather than Immortality ...
... Human and Animal Bodies , transference to Plants and Objects - Resurrection of Body scarcely held in savage religion - Future Life : a general though not universal doctrine of low races - Continued existence , rather than Immortality ...
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... human life which lie open to our observation , these two doctrines have in the modern world passed into won- derfully different conditions . The one is the theory of the Transmigration of Souls , which has indeed risen from its lower ...
... human life which lie open to our observation , these two doctrines have in the modern world passed into won- derfully different conditions . The one is the theory of the Transmigration of Souls , which has indeed risen from its lower ...
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... human souls in other human bodies , is especially considered to take place by the soul of a deceased person animating the body of an infant . North American Indians of the Algonquin districts , when little children died , would bury ...
... human souls in other human bodies , is especially considered to take place by the soul of a deceased person animating the body of an infant . North American Indians of the Algonquin districts , when little children died , would bury ...
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Africa Amazulu Amer ancestors ancient animals animistic Archip Aryan Avesta barbaric Bastian beasts belief body Brahman Brinton Castrén ceremony Chinese Christian civilized conceptions connexion Creator dead death deity demons disease divine doctrine dwell earth evil feast fetish fire ghosts give gods Greek Grimm Hades Heaven Heaven-god higher Hindu human idea idol Indians Iroquois island J. G. Müller Journ Khonds land living Lord lower culture lower races lustration mankind Max Müller Meiners mind modern Moon Myth nations native nature negro offerings original Parsi passed Peru philosophy Pinkerton polytheism prayer priest primitive region religion religious Rig-Veda rites rude sacred sacrifice savage Schoolcraft seems Sheol solar souls spirits stone Sun-worship Supreme Deity temple theology theory thou thought tion Tonga tree tribes Turanian tribes Unkulunkulu Waitz West worship Zealand Zeus Zulu