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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... vol . i . p . 244. See ' Journ . Ind . Archip . ' vol . iii . p . 113 ( Dayaks ) . Compare wasting and death of souls in depths of Hades , Taylor , ' New Zealand , ' p . 232 . oblivion . 1 Even common water can drown a negro 20 ANIMISM .
... vol . i . p . 244. See ' Journ . Ind . Archip . ' vol . iii . p . 113 ( Dayaks ) . Compare wasting and death of souls in depths of Hades , Taylor , ' New Zealand , ' p . 232 . oblivion . 1 Even common water can drown a negro 20 ANIMISM .
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... negro ghost , if we may believe the story of the Matamba widows having themselves ducked in the river or pond to drown off the souls of their departed husbands , who might still be hanging about them , clinging closest to the best loved ...
... negro ghost , if we may believe the story of the Matamba widows having themselves ducked in the river or pond to drown off the souls of their departed husbands , who might still be hanging about them , clinging closest to the best loved ...
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... modern visits to hell and heaven by Chris- tianized negro visionaries in America , see Macrae , Americans at Home , ' vol . ii . p . 91 . 3 Lucian . Philopseudes , pp . 21-5 . 6 taken with a fever , and died on the third 48 ANIMISM .
... modern visits to hell and heaven by Chris- tianized negro visionaries in America , see Macrae , Americans at Home , ' vol . ii . p . 91 . 3 Lucian . Philopseudes , pp . 21-5 . 6 taken with a fever , and died on the third 48 ANIMISM .
Page 65
... negro's belief that there is a firmament stretched above like a cloth or web ; the Finnish poem which tells how Ilmarinen forged the firmament of finest steel , and set in it the moon and stars . The New Zealander , with his notion of a ...
... negro's belief that there is a firmament stretched above like a cloth or web ; the Finnish poem which tells how Ilmarinen forged the firmament of finest steel , and set in it the moon and stars . The New Zealander , with his notion of a ...
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... negro of our own day would feel to the utmost the sense of those lines in the beginning of the Iliad , which describe the heroes ' " souls " being cast down to Hades , but " themselves " left a prey to dogs and carrion birds . Rising to ...
... negro of our own day would feel to the utmost the sense of those lines in the beginning of the Iliad , which describe the heroes ' " souls " being cast down to Hades , but " themselves " left a prey to dogs and carrion birds . Rising to ...
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