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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... low races - Continued existence , rather than ... lower races - Transitional theories - Retribution - theory , apparently derived , belongs especially to the higher races - Doctrine of Moral Retribution as developed in the higher culture ...
... low races - Continued existence , rather than ... lower races - Transitional theories - Retribution - theory , apparently derived , belongs especially to the higher races - Doctrine of Moral Retribution as developed in the higher culture ...
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... low races ; its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity - Doctrine of Divine Supremacy , distinct from , while tending towards , the doctrine of Monotheism- Idea of Supreme Deity evolved in various forms among the ...
... low races ; its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity - Doctrine of Divine Supremacy , distinct from , while tending towards , the doctrine of Monotheism- Idea of Supreme Deity evolved in various forms among the ...
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... CULTURE . CHAPTER XII . ANIMISM - continued . Doctrine of Soul's Existence after Death ; its main divisions ... lower levels of culture the opinions of mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to ...
... CULTURE . CHAPTER XII . ANIMISM - continued . Doctrine of Soul's Existence after Death ; its main divisions ... lower levels of culture the opinions of mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to ...
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... lower stages to establish itself among the huge religious communities of Asia , great in history , enormous even in present mass , yet arrested and as it seems henceforth unprogressive in develop- ment ; but the more highly educated ...
... lower stages to establish itself among the huge religious communities of Asia , great in history , enormous even in present mass , yet arrested and as it seems henceforth unprogressive in develop- ment ; but the more highly educated ...
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... lower races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly resurrection . One of the most remark- able forms which this belief assumes is when dark - skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to account for the appearance among them of human ...
... lower races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly resurrection . One of the most remark- able forms which this belief assumes is when dark - skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to account for the appearance among them of human ...
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